Battleship Sailor by Theodore Mason

Ensuring ones safety is a delegate we ought to do for ourselves. However, serving in battle for ones hoidenish is not very common to all. In this way, we can say that forces officers are real heroes. Being in the service, they promise to do their exceed not only to defend lives in danger, but guard the body politics security. In his book, Theodore Mason details the war he witnessed as a navy blue officer during the bombing of the Pearl Harbor. Set in 1941, the condition provides details on the struggles of being in the navythe challenges and boredom, conquest and fears.Unlike other accounts of wars, this book takes a different angle in that the author is not a colored officer, rather a low-rank radio performer who was not well-trained in ammunitions. At first, the book is a bit monotonous, as it talks or so the usual everyday life of the members of the navy. Masons use of acronyms and his namecalling could some make the ordinary reader sleep for difficulty of relating with the characters and things he mentioned. Nevertheless, he is good at describing virtually the environment and the people around him.He wrote about the drinking sprees they had in Honolulu, San Francisco and Seattle when they went on shore. Just like the usual navy officers, they had fun drinking, dancing, and watching girls. The main part of the book is the Japanese maculation on the ships, which is made intense by the fact that the navy officials that judgment of conviction were on shore, thus the ammunitions were all locked up. To worsen the situation, Mason states that crews did not charter much knowledge of defense, and were not trained to hold ammunitions.When the Japanese attacked on the Pearl Harbor, Mason was sent to USS Californias maintop, which allowed him a birds eyeview of everything happening, including the sinking of their ship and the wipeout caused by the enemies. At the end of the book, the author gives his reflections about the war. From what he witnessed, he expressed sadness from the ruins of war to a nation so bonnie and great. Work Cited Mason, Theodore. Battleship Sailor. Maryland Naval Institute Press, 1994.