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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Blair's books provide an overview, O'Kane is a very good writer and he was there.
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Agree with Steve. O'Kane is very analytical and good on technical and tactical details. You get to read a lot of what went through his head in planning for an attack or a section of his patrol, and not much was left to chance.
Somehow, after reading Clair's book I got a bad feeling about US submarines: basically the first part of the war they were poorly used strategically, were not aggressive enough and had lots of technical troubles. And then they wipe out the Japs merchant fleet in one year - it felt like something was missing.
Reading O'Kane and the "Wolfpack - the American submarine strategy that helped defeat Japan" opened my eyes in that the first clearly illustrates how good a sub captain can be and the 2nd tells the history of "getting there" and how much the Americans were trying, while maybe failing.
I never lacked respect for the US Submarine Service, but now its double
