No Ordinary Joes (51 page)

Enlisted Men

B
ecause this is a nonacademic narration, I don’t feel it is necessary to footnote or provide a comprehensive bibliography of sources. But I do want to include the names of authors who were essential in my research:

David Creed,
Operations of the Fremantle Submarine Base 1942–1945;
Anthony Barker and Lisa Jackson,
Fleeting Attraction: A Social History of American Servicemen in Western Australia During the Second World War
; Lynne Cairns,
Fremantle’s Secret Fleets;
Beth Bailey and David Farber,
The First Strange Place
:
Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii;
Time-Life Books,
War Under the Pacific
; Robert Stern,
U.S. Subs in Action;
Antony Preston,
Submarines;
Clay Blair Jr.,
Silent Victory
:
The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan;
Richard Perry,
United We Stand
:
A Visual Journey of Wartime Patriotism;
Life,
Our Finest Hour: Voices of the World War II Generation
; Donald De Nevi,
The West Coast Goes to War 1941–1942;
Stan Cohen,
To Win the War
:
Home Front Memorabilia of World War II and V for Victory: America’s Home Front During World War II;
Bert and Margie Webber,
The Lure of Medford;
Doug Stanton,
In Harm’s Way;
Carl Lavo,
Back from the Deep;
Rear Admiral Corwin Mendenhall,
Submarine Diary: The Silent Stalking of Japan;
Jonathan McCullough,
A Tale of Two Subs;
John Burton,
Traveling Life’s Twisting Trails
; Albert Rupp,
Threshold of Hell;
Terence Kirk,
The Secret Camera;
Linda Goetz Holmes,
Unjust Enrichment
:
How Japan’s Companies Built Postwar Fortunes Using American POWs;
Gavan Daws,
Prisoners of the Japanese
:
POWs of World War II in the Pacific;
Tom Mathews,
Our Father’s War;
Hampton Sides,
Ghost Soldiers;
Stephen Ambrose,
Comrades;
Tom Brokaw,
The Greatest Generation
; James Bradley,
Flyboys
and
Flags of Our Fathers
.

T
his list must start with Barbara Palmer. I appreciate her candor, support, and patience.

From the beginning, there was my agent, Richard Pine, who initially believed in the project and never gave up despite all the setbacks.

Editorially, I appreciate Rachel Klayman’s patience and significant input, and then the way that Sydny Miner at Crown Publishers brilliantly picked up the ball.

In Portland, David Kelly was such a friend and mentor.

I can’t give enough thanks to Gordy Cox, Tim McCoy, Bob Palmer, and Chuck Vervalin, not only for what they endured during the war but also for the trust they afforded me. I apologize again for taking so long. And a big thanks to their families, and to all the other crew members of the
Grenadier
who shared their stories.

I also appreciate the sound advice I got from early readers—Tim Boyle, John Strawn, and John Norville.

And to all the many people who gave their time, money, passion, and energy to the projects—Wordstock and Community of Writers—that diverted me from finishing this book, especially Peter Sears, Greg Netzer, Jan Smith, Eden Bainter, Tom McKenna, Shelley Washburn, Sydney Thompson, Rich Meyers, and Erin Erginbright. Thanks also to all the writers and teachers in supporting the mission.

My sister Barbara Colton Juelson, the world’s nicest person, was always there for me. So were my daughters, Sarah and Wendy.

And to Stacy Bartley, who offered so much encouragement, I owe so much.

And special thanks to Greg Dufault, Kerry McClanahan, Regina
Perata, Laure Redmond, Steve Duin, Gail McCormick, Arlene Schnitzer, Katie Merritt, Storm Large, Katherine Dunn, Terry and Val Holberton, Todd Houlette, Kelly Burke, Don and Wendy Cobleigh, Rebecca Burrell, Shel Buch, Kate Finn, Rick Weiss, Brian Herman, Week 10 campers, Jill Spitznoff, Lodi Rice, Trudi Morrison, Maria Ponzi, Teresa DiFalco, Shirley Williams, COW teachers, the Boys of Bandon, and all the book clubs who listened to this story.

Since his days as a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, Larry Colton has taught high school, worked for Nike, and written three books. Between 1976 and 2000, his articles appeared in the
New York Times Magazine
, the
Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated, Ladies’ Home Journal, Esquire
, and elsewhere. His previous books are
Idol Time, Goat Brothers
(a main selection for Book of the Month Club), and
Counting Coup
, which in 2000 won the Frankfurt eBook Award (FeBA) for nonfiction. He is also the founder of Wordstock, the Portland Book Festival.