Word: fahey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confused with James C. Fahey, compiler of Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, a data-packed softback that has sold over half a million copies...
Because of, and not in spite of these things, Pacific War Diary is a fine and valuable book. Nobody can read Fahey's endless and well-documented complaints about how little sleep he got without wondering how men could survive that way for months on end. Half-starved, sleepless, alternately boiled, roasted and half-drowned in tropic downpours, James Fahey, Seaman First Class, and 1,300 shipmates fought through from the Solomons to the surrender of Japan. Montpelier's guns blasted away furiously in a dozen Solomons engagements; Fahey complained of the noise in his ears. After...
...Fahey put his diary in a trunk and went to work in Waltham's sanitation department. Not until 1960 did he read a paperback reprint of Admiral Halsey's Story, by Joe Bryan III. Then Fahey made a fair copy of his own diary and sent it to Bryan. He also sent it to Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, who sent it to Houghton Mifflin with a gracious foreword...
...reserve rear admiral, Morison recognized Fahey's book as an account of the war that was neither the admirals' war nor the heroes', but the war of those who merely were there...
More than anyone to date, Fahey conveys that sense of necessary numb ness that thousands of his fellows have never managed to convey to wives or friends back home: this is what it was like...