The Jersey Brothers A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home

Sally Mott Freeman, Cassandra Campbell

eAudio - 2017

This extraordinary adventure of three brothers at the center of the most dramatic turning points of World War II in the Pacific Theater is "liable to break the hearts of Unbroken fans, and it's all true" (The New York Times).The three Jersey brothers are all Navy men who end up coincidentally and extraordinarily at the epicenter of three of the war's most crucial moments. Bill, a naval intelligence officer, is tapped by FDR to set up and run his secret map room in the White House basement. Benny is the gunnery and antiaircraft officer on USS Enterprise, one of the few ships to escape the Pearl Harbor attack and, by the end of 1942, the only aircraft carrier left in the Pacific to defend against the Japanese. Barton, the ...youngest, gets a plum commission in the Navy Supply Corps because his mother wants him out of harm's way. But this protection plan backfires when Barton is sent to Manila and listed as wounded and missing after a Japanese... more