Harm's Way--Every Day By: Harold "Bud" Kalosky (108 pages, photos, drawings, maps) Reviewer: Bernie Ditter Overall Rating: Three Stars--Recommended. A Solid Effort Boatswain's Mate "Bud" Kalosky's battle station was the #4 20mm anti-aircraft machine gun on the USS Sproston (DD-577). Attached to the 49th Destroyer Squadron of the 5th Fleet, the Sproston and her crew were assigned radar picket duty in support of the invasion of Okinawa. They were either on station, refueling, supplying or repairing for the best part of those three months. During those weeks on station the Navy lost to the sea 5000 men and experienced another 5000 casualties. Eighty-eight tin cans and thirty DE's were lost or damaged to the kamikaze. The battle for Okinawa was to be the precursor to the invasion of the Japanese Homeland and the battle has been described by many historians as one of the largest naval engagements ever. Working with the ship's log and his own personal recall the author writes a very readable account of his and his shipmates' experiences. For those readers who have served on a destroyer the account and the myriad details of life at sea will ring true and take on credibility. The very sobering statistic of the day to day loss of life and the numbing reporting of ship after ship being either sunk or put out of commission by dive bombers and kamikaze reminds us of the magnitude of WWII. Putting the losses on the radar picket stations into some perspective are these statistics. More than 250,000 Japanese and Okinawa natives lost their lives during this battle. More than 7500 US soldiers lost their lives and another 30,000 were wounded. Undoubtedly, were it not for the efforts of the ships on the picket stations during this battle, the casualties would have been far greater in number. If you are like this reviewer each book that I read leads me in the direction of another. My next book will be about the Invasion of Okinawa.   Available through: Publishamerica.com Amazon.com Books-A-Million Barnes & Noble