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The Submarine Has no Friends by Chas. Hinman & Douglas Cambell; copywriter 2019; details all blue on blue incidents from official records, most notably USS S-26(USS-131) rammed and sunk by USS Sturdy PC-460 in careless port turn maneuver on 1/24/1942. Only the CO, executive officer and a lookout survived. USS Dorado(SS-248)operating in restricted Canal zone water was sunk by PBM 10/15/1943. Postwar records reflect a U-boat was also in the area creating confusion...all 77 crew were lost. USS Seawolf (SS-197) was possibly sunk 10/4 1944 by USS Richard M Rowell(DE-403)-83 crew & 17 Army passengers lost. The volume covers converse submarine damage incl. POWs knowingly sunk aboard Jap shipping et al, circular torpedo incidents, near misses and related fog-of-war mishap.

t last count, more than 80 U.S. submarines recorded some type of actual "friendly fire" incident in which they were involved during their WWII war patrols. From being attacked by Allied bombers, depth-charged by U.S. ships or fired upon by armed Allied merchant ships, submariners quickly came to understand the bitter truth of the maxim: 'The submarine has no friends.' While the majority of submarines and their crew escaped with little more than bruised egos or minor injuries, three submarines and their crews were lost to friendly fire. For the first time in book format, a serious and most comprehensive research effort has gone into capturing all such "friendly fire" incidents involving U.S. submarines during World War II. Compiled through relentless research by the co-authors, their stories of loss and survival by "other than the enemy" is presented within these pages.