Silent Sea (The Silent War Book 2)

Silent Sea (The Silent War Book 2)

As they listened to the death throes of their sister ship Mako sinking in the Pacific where the waters were six miles deep, the crew of USS Eelfish suddenly came of age. They were a new breed: a brand-new fleet submarine crewed by draftees and reservists. Hidebound regular Navy officers believed they wouldnâ€™t fight. But fight they did with reckless abandon, proving themselves on two fronts â€” against the Japanese at sea, and against their own Admirals, who clung to outmoded concepts of how to wage war under the sea.

This true-to-life novel moves at breathtaking speed from the invasion of Guadalcanal through the battle of the Philippine Sea and to the coast of Japan. By the end of the war, submarines such as Eelfish had so tightened the noose of naval blockade around Japan that the enemy was finished as an industrial nation, unable to fight effectively.

But American submariners paid dearly for their victories. One out of every five men who went to sea in submarines in the Pacific died in combat, the highest percentage of any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces. This is a novel about their exploits, how they fought, how they loved, and how they died, written by a man who was there.

Harry Homewood was a qualified submariner before he was seventeen years old, having lied to the Navy about his age, and serving in a little "S"-boat in the old Asiatic Fleet. After Pearl Harbor he reenlisted and made eleven war patrols in the Southwest Pacific. He later became Chicago Bureau Chief for Newsweek, chief editorial writer for the Chicago Sun-Times, and for eleven years had his own weekly news program syndicated to thirty-two PBS television stations.

Country	USA
Author	Harry Homewood
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Thunderchild Publishing
Manufacturer	Thunderchild Publishing
NumberOfPages	303
PublicationDate	2016-04-20
Publisher	Thunderchild Publishing
ReleaseDate	2016-04-20
Studio	Thunderchild Publishing

Silent Sea (The Silent War Book 2)

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