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At a remote duty station in the Aleutian chain, 8 men were engaged in a pre-World War II Navy mission, its aim secret even from them. One day Royse Gibson and another man disappeared. This memoir combines Royse's diary with his daughter's story of family life after his disappearance and her visit to Kanaga Island 57 years later seeking answers.

The middle of the 20 Century was a time of turmoil. The Cold War was underway and Mr. McCarthy, chairman of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, was weeding out those whose patriotism was questionable. At any moment Russia could drop an atomic bomb on Stockton, the only inland seaport in California. Therefore at the College of the Pacific, students were versed in survival procedures - "go rapidly to the levee and jump into the water" (gi...

It was the winter of 1937-'38. World War II was brewing. At a remote duty station on Kanaga Island, Alaska, in the middle of the Aleutian chain, eight men were engaged in a U. S. Navy mission whose aim was secret even from them.The medic, Chief Pharmacist's Mate Royse Gibson, had little to do - no one in the small contingent got sick, no one was injured. There wouldn't be a mail boat for months. So Gibson kept a diary in the form of letters to...