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Take Her Deep - A Submarine against Japan in WWI
I. J. Galantin  
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The record of each United States submarine's World War II exploits is available to anyone in the now-declassified war patrol reports on file at the Submarine Force Library & Museum, Groton, Conn. Those official, stereotypical reports provide the factual data of a submarine's wartime action but little in the way of human activity and behavior. For many years the now- dwindling ranks of Halibut shipmates have met in biennial reunion For the conception and continuity of these gatherings we are all greatly indebted to Clayton Rantz and Silvio Gardella. On those occasions each officer and every enlisted man had his own tale to tell, his own memory of wartime events that we had shared but had experienced individually. Each man was hungry for a more comprehensive view of Halibut's action than he had at his battle station in engine room, torpedo room, or wherever. To satisfy that craving I chose to cover the story of Halibut for the time she was under my command — August, 1943, to December, 1944. With no personal involvement in her earlier days, I could not reconstruct adequately the actions of ship and crew, bold and successful though they were, in the period from her commissioning on April 10, 1942, until August 11,1943.

Product Details
Source: Paperback: 320 pages 
Publisher: Pocket Books (Mm); Reissue edition (November 1992) 
Language: English 

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