“UNRESTRICTED WARFARE.” How a New Breed of Officers Led the Submarine Force to Victory in World War II. By James F. DeRose. Foreword by Rear Admiral Roger W. Paine, Jr., USN (Ret.). The dramatic story of the harsh baptism by fire faced by U.S. submarine commanders during world war II. The first skippers went to battle hamstrung by conservative peacetime training and plagued by defective torpedoes. Drawing extensively from now declassified files, Japanese archives, and the testimony of surviving veterans, James DeRose has written a fascinating account of the men and vessels responsible for the only successful submarine campaign of the war. The author focuses on officers associated with the legendary USS Wahoo (SS-238). Headed by Dudley “Mush” Morton and his executive officer, Richard “Dick” O’Kane, they included George Grider, author of the classic War Fish, and Roger Paine, DeRose’s principal informant. Numbering about a dozen in all, they did more than their share to establish the aggressive submarine tactics used in the war against Japan. DeRose also tells of the harrowing last hours of the men trapped aboard the sub, USS Tang (SS-306) which was sunk by one of her own circle-run torpedoes. 2000 Hardback edition, with a full-color dust jacket, jacket is wrapped in clear protective plastic. 310 pages, 21 black and white photos, 1 map, 4 diagrams, an 11 page appendix and index.
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