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Here is a comprehensive accounting of all United States and allied
submarine attacks on the Japanese for which success was claimed or
occurred. The expanded coverage focuses on successes by U.S. and
British and Dutch submarines in the Pacific1and Indian oceans,
Soviet submarines, and losses caused by mines laid by submarines.
The book also includes details from top-secret "Ultra" messages
decoded during the war and recently translated1documents that
provide correct Japanese ship names, ship type and tonnage, convoy
names, human loss numbers and other attack details, as well as a
military evaluation of each attack.
This volume traces the career of the submarine the USS Puffer from
the laying of her keel and her commissioning on April 27, 1943,
until her departure for the scrap yard in late 1960. Compiled from
interviews with former crew members, including the author's father,
Donald B. McDonald, as well as other contemporary sources, it
follows the crew of the Puffer through nine war patrols. Events
recollected include the First War Patrol, which resulted in a
record-setting 38 hour submergence because of enemy fire; the
dangerous transfer of torpedoes while surfaced in enemy waters; and
the wild bombardment of Japanese shore installations with the
5-inch deck gun. There are numerous wartime photographs and
appendices providing a list of awards earned by the crew and a
summary of claimed successful attacks. Brief biographies of the
seven commissioned officers are also included.
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