So who has started reading a few Pacific sub books

[Wilko]

I have searched high and low for my copy of Run Silent Run Deep but it is gone :damn:

just ordered it online and should have it by Thursday next week so am looking foward to that, anyone else found they have started to pick up a few books in anticapation.

[Drebbel]

I did. Started on "Submarine Diary" by C. Mendenhall a few weeks ago. Is a great book, can recommend it to all of you.

[Tigrone]

I can recommend Zoomies Subs and Zeros:Heroic Rescues in World War II by the Submarine Lifeguard League. And, it's by Vice Admiral Lockwood himself. And also, if only because there are several pictures in it of my dad getting fished out of the drink with his crew by Tigrone.:ping:

http://www.submarinebooks.com/ZoomiesSubZeros.htm

$115 a copy! I've got two. My family would kill me if I peddled them on Ebay though.

I fear a lot of the good first person postwar books by the real participants are out of print now.

[Rosencrantz]

Well, reading... :oops:


-RC-

[Wilko]

Just ordered = Silent Victory: The US Submarine War Against Japan by Clay Blair today through my local libary, going to read it and if it is as good as what I have gathered from reading on here I will see if I can buy it.

[don1reed]

Highly recommend:

Thunder Below by Gene Fluckey (About the USS Barb and LTC Fluckey)
The Bravest Man by Wm. Tuohy (About the USS Tang and LTC O'Kane)
Pigboat 39 by Gugliotta (About one of the "S" boats)
Silent Victory by C. Blair (USN subs in WWII)
US Submarine Operations in WWII by Theodore Roscoe (USN subs in WWII--gives TDC instructions)

There are many, many more...

[Kruger]

I've read "Strike under the sea"

[Threadfin]

Silent Victory is excelllent.

I'd also recommend

Wake of the Wahoo by Sterling
Clear the Bridge by O'Kane
Wahoo by O'Kane
Silent Running by Calvert
Thunder Below by Fluckey

[Rose]

I just bought Silent Victory and Thunder Below and I'm quite excited to read them.

[stinger503]

I can recommend "Brave ship, Brave men" good book, not about U-Boats but the USS Aaron Ward a destroyer that survives a 25+ plane kamikaze attack. Very good book the ship was so damaged it was decommissioned (pictured below after attack).
http://wgordon.web.wesleyan.edu/kamikaze/books/ships/lott/image1.jpg

[cdrsubron7]

I like to add three submarine books that I've enjoyed reading over the years. :yep:


Sink'em All - Adm Charles Lockwood :up: :up:

Take Her Deep - Adm IJ Galantin :up: :up:

Unrestricted Warfare - James F DeRose :up: :up:



cdrsubron7 :D :roll:

[fullmetaledges]

Silent running by James calvert
isbn 0-471-19705-x

[edd]

Hello new on here , I have just read " The last patrol" by Larry Holmes , excellent read

[WilhelmSchulz.]

Run Silent Run Deed by Edward L Beach
Submarine by Edward L Beach
Wake of the Wahoo by Forest J Sterling
Clear the Brige by Dick O'Kane
Pride Runs Deep by Camron Cookie

Now all these books have been read more than 3x.

[Sailor Steve]

I've read them all over the last forty years. I though Pride Runs Deep was mediocre at best.

[MobyGrape]

I'm reading, Undersea victory, from my local library.
see here/
Fantastic
http://www.submarinebooks.com/UnderseaV.htm

[Capt. D]

[quote=WilhelmSchulz.]Run Silent Run Deed by Edward L Beach
Submarine by Edward L Beach
Wake of the Wahoo by Forest J Sterling
Clear the Brige by Dick O'Kane
Pride Runs Deep by Camron Cookie


Not a bad list at all! Here are a few I've read at least 3X or more. Couple are repeats of above:
Non Fiction:
Submarine - Edward Beach
Wake of the Wahoo - Forest Sterling
Clear the Bridge - Dick O'Kane
Batfish - Lowder/Scott
Silversides - Trwmbel
Warfish - George Grider (Was officer with O'Kane and "Mush Morton" on the Wahoo)
Wahoo - Dick O'Kane
Pig Boats - Theodore Roscoe (This was previously published as 'United States Submarine Operations of World War II)
Clear the Bridge - Dick O'Kane
Combat Patrol - Clay Blair Jr. (Abridge version of Silent Victory)
Sink 'Em All - Charles A. Lockwood
---To name a few--

Fiction:
Run Silent Run Deep - Edward Beach
Dust on the Sea - Edward Beach (Sequal to the previous book)
Final Harbor - Harry Homewood
Silent Sea - Harry Homewood (Sequal to the previous book)
Silent Service (5 Book Series) - J. Farragut Jones
Periscope (5 Book Series) - Halsey Clark

The last two 5 book series have the same characters in them. Starts with the Atlantic war then moves on to the sinking of the USS Sebago (ala USS Squalus) and what becomes of the men involved with the incident as the war progresses. Some characters are real close to "non fiction ones" as you read through the series. One case in point a Ben Mount who could be a cross between Charles "Swede" Momsen and Adm. Rickover - of Nuke fame. Could be same author using different names or one guy following the lead of the other.

Another good Non Fiction book is The Terrible Hours about the Squalus incident.

Happy Hunting :ping: