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Submarine Stories: Recollections from the Diesel Boats
from: US Naval Institute Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 359.9330973
EAN: 9781591148418
ISBN: 1591148413
Label: US Naval Institute Press
Manufacturer: US Naval Institute Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: April 02, 2007
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date: April 02, 2007
Studio: US Naval Institute Press
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Editorial Review:
Culled from many never-before-published narratives and oral histories conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Naval Institute, Submarine Stories presents nearly five dozen first-person accounts from men who were involved with gasoline- and diesel-powered submarines during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The story of these boats, their technological evolution and tactical value, is also the story of the men who went to sea in them. The accounts illustrate the human aspects of serving in diesel boats: the training, operations in peacetime and war, liberty exploits, humorous sidelights, and special feelings of bonding and camaraderie that grew among shipmates.
Included here are some familiar names. Slade Cutter, who earned four Navy Crosses as a skipper in World War II, describes the process that made him a capable submariner. Dennis Wilkinson, first skipper of the nuclear-powered Nautilus in the 1950s, tells of being in the first missile-firing submarine in the 1940s. Robert McNitt recalls his experiences as executive officer to Medal of Honor skipper Gene Fluckey. Among the other submariners who present their personal memories are Jerry Beckley, contemplating the possibility of firing nuclear missiles during the 1962 Cuban crisis; Hosey Mays, describing what it was like to be a black man in a boat with a nearly all-white crew; Paul Foster, discussing the sinking a German U-boat in World War I; and Wayne Miller, explaining the enormous satisfaction he felt when he earned his silver dolphins.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Tales of the diesel boats
This book consists of 58 short chapters, each describing some event or advance in the development of US Navy conventional submarines. It covers the entire period of US diesel boat operation, from the early pre-WWI days up to the last of the "B-girls", USS Blueback, decommisioned in the late 1980's, and the Dolphin, lasting into the 21st century. The individual chapters can be read in 10-15 minutes, but each is a careful vignette of some interesting aspect of submarine life onboard these boats. ... Read More
Rating: - Fantastic gift for a submariner
I purchased this as a gift for a WWII submariner who states he greatly enjoyed it (and some of the others I've purchased in the past he has not praised this highly.)
Some of the stories were those he already knew from attending the yearly subvet conventions. And (restating it simply and briefly) he states that though he'd already heard many of the stories from the mouths of the very men who wrote them, it was still great having it in print.
There are many individual ... Read More
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