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wahoo
07-09-05, 01:09 PM
I have read all of these books and they are as follows, the ones I think are the best

Thunder Below USS Barb RADM Eugene Fluckey
Wahoo USS Wahoo RADM Dick Okane (My fav of course)
Clear The Bridge USS Tang RADM Dick Okane
Silent Victory All Pacific Subs 2books Clay Blair
Submarine Diary USS Sculpin and others Corwin Mendenhall
BOWFIN USS Bowfin
Silent Running USS Jack VADM James Calvert
Red Scorpion USS Rasher
Final Dive USS Snook
BATFISH USS Batfish
SHINANO USS Archerfish RADM Joseph Enright
Nothing friendly in the vicinity USS Guardfish
Take Her Deep USS Halibut ADM Galatine
Slade Cutter USS Seahorse (He just passed away 9June)

Salvadoreno
07-28-05, 03:29 AM
you guys need to read about the true warriors of uboots "the Germans"... Which had the greatest action of the battle of the atlantic..
Read "Hitlers Uboat War"
"Battle of the Atlantic"
and "Iron Coffins"
all nonfiction (or true books)..

Pigfish
07-28-05, 04:49 AM
Heres 3 for me:

"Utmost Savagery: The three days at Tarawa" by Col. J.H Alexander.

"Operation Iceberg" by Gerald Astor. About Okinawa.

"In Harms Way" by Doug Stanton. About the terrible ordeal of the survivors of the Indianapolis.

Stealth Elephant
07-28-05, 10:03 AM
"In Harms Way" by Doug Stanton. About the terrible ordeal of the survivors of the Indianapolis.

I wrote my senior history thesis paper on the USS Indianapolis. This book was a nail-biter through and through.

Kapitan
07-28-05, 11:07 AM
not realy into WW2 subs but read a WW1 submarine book called the last patrol

Oberon
07-28-05, 03:04 PM
"Business in Great Waters" is a good book, my granddad gave it to me a while back.
:up:

DAB
07-28-05, 04:17 PM
1) Zehn Jahr und Zwanzig Tage by Karl Donuts
2) One of our Submarins, by some RN dude


One of our Submarines is by Edward Young.

U333 by Peter Cremer is exactly the same format but is written by a German U-Boat ace. Both are excellent reads.

not realy into WW2 subs but read a WW1 submarine book called the last patrol

Do you have the ISBN for the book (which I'm presuming is finctional). The only ww1 book (fictional) I've ever come across is "Patrol to the Golden Horn". I've googled "The Last Patrol" but it only comes up with a ww2 book.

Kapitan
07-28-05, 04:21 PM
il try to find it

DAB
07-28-05, 06:09 PM
il try to find it

thanks

Kapitan
07-28-05, 06:30 PM
for one the book is out of print and two i think that book went on the fire im not sure unless it in the garrage but its about a ww1 E class submarine in the dardanells

i think