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07-15-06, 11:40 PM
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Officer
 Join Date: Aug 2004
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So who has started reading a few Pacific sub books
I have searched high and low for my copy of Run Silent Run Deep but it is gone
 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.
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07-16-06, 02:24 AM
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Dutch Sea Lord
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I did. Started on "Submarine Diary" by C. Mendenhall a few weeks ago. Is a great book, can recommend it to all of you.
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07-16-06, 03:03 PM
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Commander
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Zoomies Subs and Zeros by Vice Admiral Lockwood
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.
 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.
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07-16-06, 05:27 PM
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Grey Wolf
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Well, reading...
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07-17-06, 04:32 AM
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Officer
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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.
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07-17-06, 07:33 AM
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Ace of the Deep
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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...
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07-17-06, 07:52 AM
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Commander
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I've read "Strike under the sea"
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07-17-06, 09:29 AM
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Ace of the Deep
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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
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07-18-06, 11:29 PM
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Grey Wolf
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I just bought Silent Victory and Thunder Below and I'm quite excited to read them.
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07-20-06, 01:10 AM
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Sailor man
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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).
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07-20-06, 07:57 PM
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Sink'em All
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I like to add three submarine books that I've enjoyed reading over the years.
 Sink'em All - Adm Charles Lockwood Take Her Deep - Adm IJ Galantin Unrestricted Warfare - James F DeRose cdrsubron7  
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07-21-06, 02:38 AM
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Chief
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Location: Utah
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Silent running by James calvert
isbn 0-471-19705-x |
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07-21-06, 05:33 PM
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Bilge Rat
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Hello new on here , I have just read " The last patrol" by Larry Holmes , excellent read
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07-29-06, 12:34 PM
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The Old Man
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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.
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07-29-06, 03:44 PM
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Stowaway
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I've read them all over the last forty years. I though Pride Runs Deep was mediocre at best.
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