Death of a Wooden Shoe

Death of a Wooden Shoe - A Sailor's Diary of Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942 by Thaddeus D. Novak and edited by P.J. Capelotti, Ph.D., USCGR. This true story is dedicated to the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard vessel NATSEK, whose lives were claimed by the sea, and to the crew of the U.S.C.G. vessel NANOK and it's one-of-a-kind skipper Magnus G. Magnusson and, finally, to all others who comprised the Greenland Patrol during World War