Parachute Infantry - David Kenyon Webster.

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Webster rejoined Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in February 1945; having been shot in the leg in October 1944 and previously injured in June 1944.
He is portrayed in Episode 8, The Last Patrol, of the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers.

"The Last Patrol" is the 8th Episode of Band of Brothers. It follows the perspective of Private Webster as he recounts this episode of how the members of Easy Company, who have had a psychological toll at Bastogne, go on a patrol at Hagenau for POWs. Webster's personal memoirs were of great use for the writing of this episode.
David Webster has finally returned to the field after being injured in Holland. However, his fellow soldiers have suffered a great deal without him and resent him for failing to return sooner like other soldiers did. Another soldier, Lieutenant Jones, a new addition as a recent West Point grad, is also struggling to be accepted, quickly prevented from taking part in what may be the last field operation for the company. Using the officer, Webster may be able to rekindle his lost friendships and grant the replacement officer's wish of seeing combat.
PFC. David Kenyon Webster

His memoires were written shortly after the war, but published only recently. It isn't remotely nautical, although David Webster was interested in (sea) fishing and sharks, and in 1961 "went out onto the ocean and was never seen again".
I've just started reading it, but his book is written in a style which is unsurprising, given his background...
David Kenyon Webster - Wikipedia