An Unlikely Sailor

Author J. Edward Day

Preface

J. Edward Day was President Kennedy’s postmaster general, at that time a full-fledged cabinet post.  He initiated the zip code in 1963.  Mr. Day is a lawyer, a farmer, a county government official, and a businessman.

Nineteen ninety is the fiftieth anniversary of the year in which it became inevitable that the United States would be a major participant in World War II.  No history of the Navy’s crucial role in World War II is complete without recognizing the part played by the antisubmarine fleet.