| Summary: | Hall, a native of Collinsville, Alabama, enlisted in the U.S. Navy in January 1942 and served aboard the following submarines from 1943 to 1944: U.S.S. Grouper, U.S.S. Peto, and USS Loggerhead. In the diaries, he discusses daily life in the service, including food, weather, watches, and daily chores; notes resentment of enlisted men toward officers and U.S. Merchant Marine members; gives detailed accounts of shore leaves (especially at a stop in Canberra, Australia); and describes various wartime encounters aboard the submarines, such as attacks on and by Japanese ships, and the rescue of aviators from the ocean.
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