Hooligan Sailor By Leon Fredrick (113 pages, 38 photos, 1 map) Reviewer:  James Healy Overall Rating: Two Stars: Some readers would enjoy it but many would not. The United States Coast Guard is both the smallest and most unique of the military services. Among its responsibilities is law enforcement, life saving, and when called upon, war fighting. Leon Fredrick was a Coast Guardsman during World War II--serving as a signalman petty officer. His little book (a 2-hour read) is entitled Hooligan Sailor--the Saga of One Coast Guardsman in World War II--and blends his own experiences with general information about the Coast Guard in this war. He joined the Coast Guard after high school in Monett, Missouri. A big guy, he was quickly picked for sports teams and served his first duty at Ellis Island on the station's basketball team. But quickly he volunteered for duty on an 83-foot patrol boat operating out of Sandy Hook New Jersey. These boats were in fact equipped with depth charges and operated as part of an anti-submarine defense along the Atlantic coast. With a post-war career as news editor for Billboard Publications in Nashville, Fredrick tends to jump, perhaps too quickly, from incident to incident in his story telling. He is most effective in his first-person description of saving survivors off the USS Turner (DD-648). Explosions of undetermined origin doomed the destroyer while at anchor outside New York Harbor. His tiny patrol boat, first on the scene, gathered 40 survivors. The author later served aboard the USS Theenim (AKA-63) with service in the Pacific. His last chapter is a recap of various Pacific invasions citing Coast Guard participation gleaned from other sources.