Award-winning World War II military historian William L. McGee tells about his service in the Pacific theater as a Gunner's Mate in the U.S. Navy Armed Guard, the branch of the U.S. Navy that protected merchant ships and their valuable cargo and crews from enemy attacks. McGee draws on his journals, interviews with former shipmates, and research from the National Archives to produce an engrossing story that includes the author's participation at Operation Crossroads, the first postwar atomic bomb tests at Bikini in 1946. "Little has been written about service in the Naval Armed Guard in which nearly 145,000 men served. McGee remedies this with a book that has value for historians." -Naval History Magazine