Gunfish: A Fleet Submarine Goes to War

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iUniverse, 2005 - 232 pages
"Battle Stations--Gun Action!" Ensign Charley Jason, a Reserve officer faces the searing experience of submarine warfare in the Pacific.

When a Fleet type submarine went to war in the Pacific it operated mainly on the surface, attacking convoys at night, always heavily escorted as well as single vessels, rescuing downed fliers during intense air battles and shooting up enemy trawlers, junks, fishing boats and sampans. Often it had to fight to rescue downed pilots with the submarine at total risk during such daytime actions.

 

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The Dreaded FourEngine Dive
1
Polly Flowers
12
Flowers Gunners
17
Lily Fors
22
To the Bonins
27
Intervals
52
To the Phillipines
61
The Okinawa Gunto Operations
70
Training at Guam
138
Legal Aspects
141
A Matter of Mines
144
A Testy Transit
147
Honeymoon
150
The Longest Day
153
Flaming Destruction
156
China Bank
159

Back to the Bonins
73
The Divine Wind
96
June 1945
115
Manitowoc
124
San Francisco
127
The Preparations
130
An Event of Importance
135
HighPressure Air
162
Off the Western Coast of Japan
165
What the Hell is an Atomic Bomb?
168
Epilogue
171
Notes by the Author
174
Terms
178
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