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...Sink 'Em All, by Charles A. Lockwood; Battle Submerged, byHarleyCope and Walter Karig. The coming of age of the U.S. submarine service; dramatic stories of the subs in World War II (TIME, March...
...SINK 'EM ALL (416 pp.)-Vice'Admiral Charles A. Lockwood-Dutton...
...feats of the submariners are recounted in Battle Submerged, by Rear Admiral Harley Cope and Captain Walter Karig, and Sink 'Em All, by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood. Unfortunately, each book spills some of the drama in the detail, but they make clear that the undersea arm now has handsome traditions of its own. Examples: the stories of the Barb, the Tang and the Growler...
...Nose Toward Mecca. These are only a few of the stories of U.S. subs. Battle Submerged and Sink 'Em All are crammed with more, blending the heroic and the ironic. They tell of how Pharmacist's Mate Wheeler B. Lipes of the Seadragon performed the first submerged appendectomy, a success "with the help of God and a long-handled spoon"; of how the Barb's commandos landed in Japan and blew up a train; of how the Sargo heartbreakingly fired 13 torpedoes at fat targets, only to have all 13 prove duds (flaws in the exploder mechanism...
...officers and 3.131 enlisted men lost their lives in a service which at peak strength never numbered more than 4,000 officers and 46,000 enlisted men (some 16,000 actually manning subs). In the closing chapters of Sink 'Em All, ViceAdmiral Lockwood speculates on the role of U.S. atomic subs, which should be able to circle the world without surfacing. No speculations are offered or required as to the courage of the men who will man them...