Nothing Friendly in the Vicinity .. : My Patrols on the Submarine USS Guardfish During WWII

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conner, Claude C.

Series:

Bluejacket books Nothing friendly in the vicinity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conner, Claude C., -- 1925.

United States. -- Navy--Biography.

World war, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarine.

World war, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.

World war, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American--United States--Personal narratives, American.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Submarine--Naval operations--Biography.

Radar operators.

Local Subjects:

Conner, Claude C., -- 1925.

United States. -- Navy--Biography.

World war, 1939-1945--Naval operations--Submarine.

World war, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.

World war, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: Savas Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As chronicled in Silent Victory, Clay Blair's monumental history of United States submarine operations in World War II, the submarine war against Japan was a relatively little known war-within-a-war. It was waged by an initially small but expanding force of boats that eventually made more than 1,400 war patrols and sank almost 1,400 Japanese merchant ships and naval vessels. Many American submarines carved out enviable records, including USS Guardfish, the subject of Claude Conner's remarkable memoir of service aboard a US fleet boat as an enlisted man.Conner, who served as a Radar Technician,

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Photos & Illustrations""; ""Maps""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Preface / Acknowledgements""; ""Chapter 1: Navy Training""; ""Chapter 2: Life on a Fleet Boat""; ""Chapter 3: Sea Stories""; ""Chapter 4: More Sea Stories""; ""Chapter 5: Off to Convoy College""; ""Chapter 6: A Busy Night""; ""Chapter 7: Battle Stations Submerged""; ""Chapter 8: New Assignments""; ""Chapter 9: Return to Convoy College""; ""Chapter 10: Targets""; ""Chapter 11: Submarine Alert""; ""Chapter 12: USS Extractor""

""Chapter 13: Torpedo Blast""""Chapter 14: Mixed Feelings""; ""Chapter 15: Court Convened""; ""Chapter 16: Communication Errors""; ""Chapter 17: Identification Errors""; ""Chapter 18: The Last Patrols""; ""Postscript""; ""Glossary""; ""Appendix One""; ""Appendix Two""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781940669045

1940669049

OCLC:

864414608