Having grown up in sleepy Swindon, Gordon Turner finds his eyes boggling as he enters New York Harbour on his way to pick up 1st 406, the vessel that will be his home for the final four years of the Second World War. He took part in the landings of Sicily, Salerno, Anzio and Normandy and relates his trials and tribulations of keeping body and soul together in the belly of this vast ship.--"Publisher's description."