By Your Leave, Sir

Hitching a ride in a stolen U.S. government Secret Service car, just minutes before police lights appeared in the rear-view mirror, put 17-year-old Jack H. Barnes in a spot that volunteering for the U.S. Navy seemed like a good idea. Once it got to know him, the Navy wasn't so sure it agreed. In the summer of 1945, he found himself on the unfinished, under-supplied USS Pine Island, en route to Tokyo Harbor.In By Your Leave, Sir, Barnes tells the story of how he got himself into hot water, out into the middle of the ocean, into more hot water, and onto a Japanese seaplane. It's the Pacific during World War II as you've never seen it before.

Author: Laurie Anne Blanchard, Jack H. Barnes Sr
Publisher: Hollister Press
Published: 07/03/2015
Pages: 372
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780692480939

About the Author
Jack H. Barnes Sr. was born in the early 1920's, raised in Placerville, California. He's been a naval enlisted man, a bush pilot, a railroad engineer, an aircraft mechanic, and a real estate broker. He's also a husband of 50+ years and a great, great grandfather. Laurie Anne Blanchard has traveled the world, from Nepal to Morocco. A writer, editor and musician, she focuses on bringing the life stories of other people to life.

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