Jig How

Roy W. Brown
ISBN: 1592861873, 150 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
Retail Price: $19.95
Roy Brown has done a credible job of bringing to life experiences of an impressionable teenager suddenly thrust into combat during the Second World War. His experiences are reflective of the thousands of sailors employed in providing a limited self defense capability to slow moving merchant ships. 
Jig How attempts to bring overdue recognition to a U.S. Navy unit that served with great distinction during World War II, but somehow has failed to receive media and public acknowledgement. U.S. Navy Armed Guard sailors took part in every major invasion in WWII; they were aboard 6,236 merchant ships; 710 of the ships were sunk and hundreds damaged; they were the defense and the communications on these ships. Although they were awarded thousands of medals and commendations, the vital role they played in the war has not been fully made public. World War II could not have been won without the merchant ships. These slow-moving (many barely seaworthy) vessels delivered almost all the equipment, ammunition, supplies, food, water, medicines, guns, troops, and everything needed to fight that war. They fought enemy submarines, aircraft, shore batteries, and endured the most horrendous weather conditions at sea.
The book is printed by Publish America, a Baltimore firm that prints books on demand for aspiring authors. Therefore this book suffers from a lack of proof-reading which afflicts almost all books published from this type of source. The manuscript spells the author's name as BROWNE, but on the book cover it is spelled BROWN. Why this is is never explained. 
Apart from this, Mr Brown (however it is spelled) is to be commended for writing this work.