LT Prestidge served in the Navy from June 1943 through April 1945 as engineering officer, executive officer, and captain on board the LCI-230, a landing craft troop carrier that was converted into a rocket ship in September 1944. He passed away in 2014. Mr. Prestidge recorded his war memories, which were still vivid in his mind, in 1994. The 18 audiotapes he created were subsequently lost for many years but were rediscovered in 2010 and have been transcribed, edited for clarity, and fact-checked using the official deck logs and action reports housed at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. Mr. Prestidge’s Pacific War memoir is titled The Youngest Officer.
