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Owen Pasquerly, barely 15, is supposed to be 17 or more to serve on a submarine in WWII. His friends, Nick and Enrique, get the exciting jobs of lookout and guiding the submarine in a dive. Owen's stuck doing what he did back home: baking bread.
"Where's the glory in that?" he wonders, even as he does as he's told to keep Captain Abbott's suspicions about his age from sending him home.
Then again, maybe Owen will never get home. Maybe the U.S.S. Mako, loaded with torpedoes for hunting Japanese ships, will itself become the hunted.
But there's no "maybe" about it. Owen and his shipmates are in for the battle of their lives. And not everyone will survive.
Features:
- Technical details and actual battles are woven into the fictional narrative.
- Meticulously accurate, for use as education and entertainment
- Sidebars provide supplemental information on such things as how a submarine dives and rises, secret wartime codes, torpedoes and depth charging
- High resolution period black-and-white photos provide a sense of life on a sub
- The book's (fictional) submarine is "built" right here in Manitowoc!
Now and Then: An Interview
This audio CD features an interview with Paul Cummings, WWII sub vet, on what it was like to be a submariner during WWII. Plus a sample book chapter from And the Baker's Boy Went to Sea by Mary Cummings.
This CD is free to any group that has reserved an Overnight. It is available only upon request prior to your visit.
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