Submarine Stories : Recollections from the Diesel Boats

by Stillwell, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781591148418
• ISBN10: 1591148413
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-02
• Publisher: Naval Inst Pr

Table of Contents

Parks and the Pompano	p. 1
The president takes a plunge	p. 10
World War I	p. 13
Submarine school	p. 25
Beginning of the S-boats	p. 31
Building the submarine base at Pearl Harbor	p. 36
Early command	p. 42
Loss of the S-51 and S-4	p. 47
Far east duty	p. 51
R-boat service	p. 58
Oddball S-boat	p. 62
Developing the fleet boats	p. 67
Submarine tender	p. 72
Submarine detailing	p. 75
Developing the torpedo data computer	p. 77
The squalus rescue	p. 80
Encounters with corpses	p. 85
Another view on the squalus	p. 91
Grandstand seat at Pearl Harbor	p. 94
Disaster at Cavite	p. 98
Escape from the Japanese	p. 101
Reservists at submarine school	p. 104
Drum at war	p. 107
Breakers ahead!	p. 113
Battle of midway	p. 118
Peril at fifty fathoms	p. 120
Sub sailors' liberty	p. 124
Surface action	p. 128
Stern skipper	p. 132
Special missions	p. 136
Scouting the Gilbert islands	p. 141
Saga of a sculpin survivor	p. 146
Aide to Admiral King	p. 153
Crossing the equator	p. 156
Black submariner	p. 158
Wolf pack operations	p. 163
Rescuing POWs	p. 170
Enemy rescue	p. 174
New bride, new boat	p. 177
Abandoning the Darter	p. 183
Dodging mines and praying	p. 186
Not enough fish	p. 191
SubPac operations	p. 195
The postwar naval reserve	p. 200
Submarines and ice	p. 205
Missiles at sea	p. 212
Fire in the Cochino	p. 216
Hot new guppy	p. 220
Those disastrous pancake diesels	p. 227
Photo reconnaissance	p. 232
The whale-shaped albacore	p. 235
Firing the regulus	p. 239
Tangling with the soviets	p. 242
Angles and dangles	p. 246
A few days in October	p. 254
A submariner's memories	p. 260
Last of the B-girls	p. 267
End of an era	p. 274
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.