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Silent and Unseen - On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines (Hardcover)
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Silent and Unseen - On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines (Hardcover)
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In Silent and Unseen, veteran submarine commander Captain Alfred S.
McLaren describes in riveting detail the more significant events
that occurred early in the Cold War during his seven years,
1958-1965, on board three attack submarines: the USS Greenfish
(SS-351), USS Seadragon (SSN-584), and USS Skipjack (SSN-585).
Through myriad stories and anecdotes, his book focuses on the
development of attack-boat tactics and under-ice exploration
techniques. The commanding officers that a young submarine officer
serves with will determine how well prepared he will be to assume
his own command years later. This was particularly true in attack
submarines, during the early high-risk years of the Cold War. They
were continually at sea, and each reconnaissance and intelligence
collection mission was of potentially great, and sometimes
extraordinary, value to the government of the United States of
America. The missions more often than not required closing of the
potential enemy to collect the intelligence desired, generally
within weapons range. But, unlike a war patrol, the U.S. attack
boat had to remain completely undetected; then withdraw as silently
and unseen as it approached. Greenfish was one of the most
successful Pacific diesel submarines when McLaren served aboard her
as a watch and weapons officer during an era when she and other
diesel boats executed all Cold War missions and overseas
deployments. McLaren then reported to Seadragon in time to serve as
a watch officer, as she became the first nuclear submarine to
transit from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the Arctic Ocean. En
route, she examined the underside of icebergs, conducted the first
underwater survey and passage through the Northwest Passage, and
surfaced at the North Pole. He subsequently served as diving
officer, an engineering department division officer and as weapons
officer during a series of Cold War missions and a lengthy Western
Pacific deployment. Silent and Unseen concludes with a recounting
of the author's experiences as diving officer, navigator, and chief
engineer on board what was then world's fastest and most advanced
submarine, USS Skipjack (SSN-585) during the Cuban Missile Crisis,
two Cold War missions, and the very intensive and exciting period
of new tactical and weapons development which followed to counter a
rapidly emerging Soviet nuclear submarine threat.
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