Memoirs of a Navy Brat - A Girl's Adventure During the Depression and World War II (Paperback)

1941. The war was in Europe, but twelve year old Beverly and her family were half way around the world in warm, peaceful Hawaii. They felt safe.
Until the morning her father heard the drone of low flying planes and Beverly, still in her pajamas, ran out of their house and saw the Rising Sun painted on the side of the plane flying at her just above the electrical wires. Suddenly, right behind her, machine gun bullets from the Zero riddled the side of her father's car.
The tip of the plane's wing passed no more than ten feet above the electrical wires from the frightened young girl. She could see the pilot, his dark brown leather helmet, his white scarf, and his eyes, small, slanted and piercing, as he looked at her from his open cockpit. Beverly saw the smirk on his face turn to laughter and she realized he was enjoying every moment of his mission...to kill.
Seconds after, just behind her, Beverly heard the explosions on the battleship U.S.S. Arizona as it was being blown up in the harbor.
Beverly Moglich's memoir is about her harrowing moments in the attack on Pearl Harbor and the chaos of the days after, but it is also the story of America at that time and of the U.S. Navy and the difficulties children can have because of long periods of separation from their fathers while in the military.
Memoirs of a Navy Brat gives us a timely insight into the military family today when so many American troops are overseas while their wives and children wait hopefully, but alone, back home.