For the Duration - 9781723308390

A capable and willing yet somewhat reluctant hero and a loyal, faith-filled woman on a mission engage the biggest adversary of their young lives and of their generation, history's largest most massive war. Living in the exotic, adventurous, and romantic East Indies before Pearl Harbor is bombed, Jake is an American who has become a ship's officer on a schooner and then a flying boat pilot. Now, with the onset of war in the Pacific, he finds himself on the edge of danger, if not near the very middle of it. Reluctantly, because of other responsibilites, he answers the call of duty, while he also remembers the girl he left back home in the California Sierra and cannot forget . . left because she was too young, and now she's not. But will Sarah, part white, part Blackfoot and Navajo (both among America's most attractive native women) still be available and just as sweet after five long years. Or will her tough circumstances have worn her down and turned her into what the rumors claim. Whatever now (acting) Chief Petty Officer Jake Pierce USNR finds while home on leave to heal, he will leave behind those who care when he returns to the blood bath that the struggle for control of the great Pacific Ocean as become. Dangerous scouting and search & rescue missions await him in the PBY Catalinas he was also sent home to train on. With their long parasol wings and gentle purpose, they are called Dumbos, the cartoon movie having been a fairly recent release prior to the war. But Dumbo missions can be as dangerous as those of their 'sisters', the black-painted PBY night bomber Black Cats. And . . CPO Jake Pierce has other concerns: friends lost somewhere in the war, people he feels responsible for, and the women in his life.

Author: Robert Frederick Jackson, Jr.

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jul 19, 2018

Number of Pages: 433 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1723308390

ISBN-13: 9781723308390