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Search for the Japanese Fleet - USS Nautilus and the Battle of Midway (Hardcover)
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Search for the Japanese Fleet - USS Nautilus and the Battle of Midway (Hardcover)
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In the extensive literature about the Battle of Midway, the role of
American submarines has not received adequate attention. In The
Search for the Japanese Fleet: USS Nautilus and the Battle of
Midway, David W. Jourdan, one of the world's experts in undersea
exploration, has reconstructed the critical part subs played in the
action that many chroniclers of World War II consider to be the
turning point of the war in the Pacific. In the direct line of fire
was one of the oldest submarines in the navy, USS Nautilus. On
their first war patrol, Lieutenant Commander William Brockman and
his ninety-three-man crew wondered what would war be like, and as
events unfolded, their actions during an eight-hour period early in
that voyage would rank among the most important contributions of a
submarine to the most decisive engagement in U.S. Navy history.
Fifty-seven years later, Jourdan's team of deep sea explorers set
out to discover the history of the famous Battle of Midway and find
the ships the allied fleet sank. Key to the mystery was the
Nautilus and her underwater exploits. Relying on logs, diaries,
chronologies, manuals, sound recordings, and interviews with
veterans of the battle, including men who spent most of the day of
June 4th in the submarine conning tower, the story breathes new
life into the history of the epic engagement. Woven into the tale
of World War II is the modern drama of deep sea discovery as
explorers deploy technological marvels to the seafloor, over three
miles down, to reveal the relics of history and commemorate fallen
heroes.
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