The last thing he wants to see on his radar is a girl like Tess. Dan Avery has been using his skills to fight German U-boats. No-nonsense and hoping to make admiral, Lt. Turned out her partner, the gentleman below, was our son’s Recruit Division Commander! We heard stories.When fun-loving glamour girl Quintessa Beaumont learns the Navy has established the WAVES program for women, she enlists, determined to throw off her frivolous ways and contribute to the war effort. The lovely young lady below was showing me ACTUAL binoculars from the U-505, which she encouraged me to HOLD! I mentioned our son had just graduated from Great Lakes. After our son, of course.Īs an added bonus, chief petty officer selectees from Great Lakes served as docents, showing artifacts from the U-505. When my husband and I had the honor of attending our son’s graduation from Navy boot camp at Great Lakes Recruit Training Center near Chicago in 2016, there was only one item on my must-see list. Currently the U-505 is in a gorgeous display at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. While researching escort carriers for this novel, I read one of the most thrilling and fascinating stories to come out of World War II-the capture of U-505 by the USS Guadalcanal group on June 4, 1944.
These groups not only escorted convoys, but were sent to hunt down U-boats based on intelligence gleaned from intercepted and decrypted German Enigma messages and from radio direction-finding. The escort carriers soon became the nuclei of “hunter-killer” groups, along with destroyers or destroyer escorts. Dan Avery, serves aboard the auxiliary carrier USS Bogue (later called an escort carrier). The aircraft of the Bogue were the first to sink a German U-boat without assistance from surface ships. In my novel When Tides Turn, my fictional hero, Lt.
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