Nobody's Perfect is a naval comedy about the fictional USS Bustard and the antics of her crew. It is based on the novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 The Crows of Edwina Hill, written by author of western novels

Western fiction

Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 1900s and Louis L'Amour from the mid 20th century...

 and former Navy man Allan R. Bosworth

Allan R. Bosworth

Captain Allan Rucker Bosworth served in the United States Navy and United States Navy Reserve for some 38 years and authored a number of books as well as magazine articles. He was born in San Angelo, Texas, worked as a journalist in San Francisco, and served in Japan as a Naval public relations...

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Plot

The US battleship's crew has taken a Buddha statue from a Japanese village as souvenir. If the theft is discovered, it would threaten Japanese/American relations. The protagonist is the ship's petty officer who tries to stay out of trouble with his tough captain, return back the statue and woo a Japanese-American nurse.