Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Exploits of Bilge and Ma
I have read with interest these stories of the exploits of Bilge and Ma, two fiction charac ters who are supposed to have lived and moved on one of the destroyer ?otillas under my command in the late war. The author's own experience upon and around these craft when they were engaged in hunting the submarine has acquainted him with the atmosphere in which that work was done, and in the mishaps as well as in the achievements of the heroes whose adventures are set forth in these pages he has portrayed something of that playful spirit, that dare-devil courage and that unfaltering tenacity of purpose which I have always seen to be character istic of the American fighting man a?oat. I shall anticipate that the volume may not only prove enter taining reading to all who care for a yarn of the sea, but that it will be recognized by officers and men of the ?eets and their friends as a tribute to the personnel and the character of the Navy as a whole.
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