Four Years

About the Book

H.C. "Doc" Goldsmith served in the U.S. Navy during the early 1930s. Never imagining a return to service, he willingly re-joined the Navy in the fight against the Axis powers after the invasion of Pearl Harbor. Discovered after his death in 2000 by his grandson, this book is a compilation of journals written in 1965 that described in vivid detail H.C.'s World War II experiences aboard the U.S.S. Sentinel, a minesweeper assigned to the European theater.

From air raids in North Africa and London to his ship sinking in the invasion of Sicily, H.C. describes his experiences with the simplicity and awe of a farm boy from Lewisville, Texas and the calmness of a Navy medic who helped his men survive the horrors of war.

About the Author

Hubbard Clements (H.C.) Goldsmith was born in 1910 in Lewisville, Texas. He served in the U.S. Navy in the early 1930s, and at the onset of World War II, served a second time from 1941 to 1945. He earned a Purple Heart for his service during World War II. He died on September 30, 2000 in Dallas, Texas and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. He wrote this account of his War experiences in 1965 in a hand-written journal, which was discovered and transcribed by his grandson, Adam Gellert.