Deadly Patrol: Tales of Life Aboard World War II Pacific Submarines

By Quentin Thomson

Climb down the hatch into World War II submarines to discover harrowing and previously unpublished accounts of heroism, incompetence, mechanical failure, piracy, and mutiny that meant life and death during war patrols across the Pacific Ocean.Imagine reporting for duty as the chief engineering officer onboard the USS S-34 submarine just days after Pearl Harbor-the executive officer's private curtain snaps shut behind you and it is suddenly revealed that the US fleet has been lost in the Pearl Harbor attack, that no one knows the current position of the enemy's fleet, and that further attacks are eminent. Here's the previously unreleased version of what really happened at Sarrana Bay in the Aleutian Islands, where the submarine captain exclaimed "This is it boys," after the SS-34 had run aground with propellers in the air as Japanese destroyers bore down upon them. Find out what happened on the first submarine lifeguarding mission to retrieve shot down airmen abroad the USS Skate (one of the top 50 most destructive submarines of the Pacific war), and find how Quentin Thomson, later a professor of engineering at the University of Arizona, invented one of the most common home air filtration devices in the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08RRMT3CK
• ISBN13: 9798588667234
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 34 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"