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Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942 (Paperback)
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Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942 (Paperback)
Series: New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology
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One of the untold stories of World War II is the guarding of
Greenland and its coastal waters, where the first U.S. capture of
an enemy ship took place. For six months in 1942 and against
standing orders of the time, Thaddeus Nowakowski (now Novak) kept a
personal diary of his service on patrol in the North Atlantic.
Supplemented by photos from his last surviving shipmates, Novak's
diary fills a void in the story of American sailors at war in the
North Atlantic. It is the only known diary of an enlisted Coast
Guard sailor to emerge from WWII.Though the Greenland coast was of
vital importance to Allied forces, U.S. Coast Guard crews serving
there were relegated to converted fishing vessels known as wooden
shoes. Hastily commissioned in Boston to serve as escorts for
supply routes to new air bases in Greenland, ten Arctic trawlers
were transformed into the basis of the Greenland Patrol,
transporting young men who had never been away from home into a
realm of mountainous icebergs, lurking U-boats, and the alien
culture of native Greenland Eskimos. This story of the Nanok's 1942
patrol is a remarkable account of a sailor thrown into a global war
in a remote area full of environmental hardships that few endured
in World War II. Between the sudden excitements and mind-numbing
boredom of military life, Novak records the routine details of
day-to-day patrol, contacts with the native Greenlanders and their
impenetrable way of life, and actions such as the loss of the
cutter Natsek and its entire crew on the night of December 17,1942.
Not an account of grand strategy or hand-to-hand combat, this story
of a twenty-year-old petty officer on duty in the Arctic is rather
the life of an ordinary individual at war, coping with rigorous
hardships during a time of great crisis.Novak's account will be of
significant value to students of the U.S. Coast Guard and of naval
service in wartime. His illumination of the small details of a
sailor's life and perceptive observation of the arctic region and
its little-known people will appeal to anyone interested in
maritime history.
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