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Ultradog MN

Ultradog MN

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The true story of US submarines Tang, Silversides and Drum as they take the fight to WWII Japan.
It ends with the loss of Tang - by her own torpedo and the survival of her captain and 8 others in the cruel conditions of a POW camp.
The final chapter on the liberation of the POWS where Richard OKane and even Pappy Boyington are rescued will bring a tear to your eye.
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Trusting your judgement, UD, I just ordered it in paperback from Amazon, along with Queen Victoria's Matchmaking.

I had been contemplating ordering the second book but needed another to make the free shipping at $25.00.

I hate paying for shipping.

Dean
 
I read "The Bravest Man" (I think it was called) that was about the USS Tang. Being aboard that submarine for its final voyage would have been a real horror story that TV could never capture. Those men had some real intestinal fortitude to endure and (for a few) survive what happened.
 
Never plan tomorrow by joe petak its about the men captured on corregidor. My uncle is mentioned in that book .He got tired of picking corn by hand and joined the marines was a gunnery sarge on bataan made it to corregidor then battlefield commission to captain . He made it home and was in several hospitals still died young.
 
I recently finished the book "U Boat 977", the German submarine that escaped to Argentina at the end of WWII. They put out from Norway and went around the west side of England to keep out of the English Channel. Along the way, they stayed submerged for 66 consecutive days, surfacing only after they were south of Gibralter and felt they were in the clear. The sub was fitted with a "Schnorkel", a device by the periscope that allowed the diesel exhaust to exit while submerges and to allow fresh air to be drawn in. It was nip and tuck on fuel, but they made it.

The book was written by the Captain, Heinz Schaeffer.

A few years later, the U.S. claimed to have set a record for having a submarine stay submerged for 21 days.

I've mentioned before on this forum the book "Iron Coffins" by Oberlieutnant Herbert Werner. Werner had the same idea, but his boat was damaged and the war ended before it was fixed.
 
One I really like is Escape of Corregidor by Edgar whitcomb. He was a b-17 navigator who was shot down and captured several times by the Japanese. He went on to be governor of Indiana then went on several solo sailing trips.
 
What will really chap you is what our guys had to endure thanks to infighting within the Navy department over the torpedos. I don't remember the book in which I read the story, but we can thank one Admiral in charge of Torpedo R and D for all the pain our boys went through. In that book the Tang must have been mentioned as the Capt. had a really rough time in confinement as outlined therein.

Besides normal hard feelings and all that, one of the PW problems was that we were denying Japan proper the needs of survival for it's citizens so one couldn't expect much to be available for them.

I think it was the same book where the story of the Marines stranded on Wake island early in the war was covered too. What a mess.
 
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