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Descent Into Darkness: Pearl Harbor 1941, A Navy Diver's Memoir by Raymer USN(Ret), Commander Edward C - 1996
by Raymer USN(Ret), Commander Edward C
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Novato, California: Presidio Press. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 1996. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 214 pages: 5.75 x 8.75 in.: 1.6: KB#018248: Bookjacket / dustjacket now protected by a New Brodart Mylar Cover. Dustjacket, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Within hours of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Raymer, an enlisted man, was on a plane headed from San Diego to Oahu. His primary mission: to act as chief diver in the operations to rescue men trapped in sunken battleships. Removing bodies, recovering material and raising the ships themselves could, and would, come later. In this compelling memoir, Raymer describes the multiple hazards of working inside wreckage-strewn warships under the handicaps imposed by available diving technology. Courage was at least as important as competence as the number of dives mounted and the law of averages shifted against the men who went down. Raymer details many harrowing incidents, including one in which he, an arachnophobe, began to panic when a spider stowed away in his diving suit began to crawl over his face in the middle of a dive. The narrative includes lighter passages as well, especially the depictions of how the divers spent their off-duty hours pursuing food, liquor and women. For all its drama and charm, however, Raymer's memoir is useful above all as a case study of the hands-on, un-bureaucratized approach to problem-solving that the U.S. brought to WWII from the beginning. Photographs and maps not seen by PW.": B&W Photographs .
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- Place of Publication Novato, California
- Date Published 1996
- Keywords Biography, Sailors, Diving
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