Welcome to the Internet edition of Joining the War at Sea 1939-1945
A tale of destroyer life at sea from the perspective of the USS Edison DD439 and her Gunnery Officer, Franklyn Dailey Jr.



Prologue

Chapter 1- Unfinished Business

Chapter 2 - A Destroyer is Created

Chapter 3 - Convoy Preparations

Chapter 4 - Fog at Sea; Inauspicious Beginning

Chapter 5 - Coming To Africa

Chapter 6 - French Navy At Casablanca

Metalogue

Chapter 7 - Lake Bizerte and Sicily

Chapter 8-Salerno;Edison Makes Her Mark

Chapter 9 - Anzio; A Long Siege

Chapter 10 - Southern France

Chapter 11 - Germany Capitulates

Chapter 12 - Passage to the Pacific, and to History

Appendix A - A Throttleman's Response

Appendix B - More on the Loss of the USS Buck(DD420)

Appendix C - Loss of the R(escue) S(hip) Toward

Appendix D - Reexamination of Convoy AT-20's Losses on the Evening of August 22, 1942.

Appendix E - Convoy AT-20; First Night Out of Halifax August 22,1942 .


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Copyright 2009. Franklyn Dailey Jr. and Richard Angelini