Don’t Go Near the Water

This book parodies aspects of the Naval public relations during WWII in 1945. My parents were both in the navy; in fact they met while based in Seattle. That’s where my brother was born. As I recall the story, they drove to Allentown, where I was born, while pregnant with me in a purple hearse with bullet holes in the side. It was the late 60s, that’s how things went down back then. This book was made into a movie starring Glen Ford. I didn’t see it, but I’ve seen other naval parodies that I thoroughly enjoyed. There’s Abbot and Costello In The Navy, Operation Petticoat, the tv show McHale’s Navy, just to name a few (actually, that’s all I can name).