Pearl Harbor to Tokyo and Beyond By Eugene McClarty (164 pages, photos, maps) Reviewer:  Bernie Ditter Overall Rating: Three Stars--Recommended, a solid effort. CPO Eugene McClarty and the USS Bagley (DD-386) hold a special place in history. His is a unique story and one that should be read by a lot of people. Unique in that CPO McClarty was already in the Navy on December 7th and experienced the raid on Pearl Harbor from the decks of the Bagley before she was blown out of the water (figuratively as she was in dry-dock at the time). Unique in that he spent the rest of the war in the Pacific on the Bagley participating in every major battle except two. Unique in that the Bagley was selected as the ship upon whose forecastle the surrender document would be signed while in waters off Marcus Island on August 31, 1945. Unique in that amid the carnage of war visited on an almost daily basis CPO McClarty met, wooed and won the heart of his bride of 55 years. That story I'll leave for the reader to discover. And finally unique in that not a single person was killed or injured on the Bagley nor did she take a direct hit during all of that time. CPO McClarty's story is both well prepared and well edited. His personal recollections assisted by reference to his diaries and complimented by effective research puts the reader on board with him. This is probably one of the best written personal accounts of shipboard life during these precarious times. The awfulness of war is vividly reported by the author but not in a way that exploits the victims. The painful monotony of general quarters, drills and constant maintenance and upgrading of equipment makes the reader exhausted from the routine. Squeezing a baseball game or a couple of beers in between days at sea firing on the enemy and avoiding Kamikaze pilots and doing it for almost four years defies belief but this is what thousands of our military did during this time. His remaining in theatre for months following the war's end and being a party to the occupation gives the reader a sense of having been there. CPO McClarty was a career navy man and remained so until his retirement after twenty years. A glimpse of his life after the war is a suitable close to his remarkable story. This story is about one of hundreds of thousands of men and women who fought in WWII. The sacrifices that they made without question are truly monuments to their memories. This is one more story about one more of the Greatest Generation.