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Cargando... Submarine Commander: A Story of World War II and Koreapor Paul R. Schratz
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Well written account of a submariner who served throughout WW2 into Korea. He presents life on subs in a balanced manner and makes the many perils clear. Recommended read. ( ) This was an easy and interesting read. The myriad of experiences Paul Schratz endured during his naval career is fascinating. His WWII experiences were well described. His insights into the boredom, confusion, competition among the various CO's and the technical intransigence of the US Navy were very interesting. This is an honestly written account of one man's career during a very difficult part of our country's history. As a submarine veteran, I applaud Paul Schratz's effort in telling his story. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: " A fascinating personal memoir of underwater combat in World War II, told by a man who played a major role in those dangerous operations. Frank and beautifully written, Submarine Commander's breezy style and irrepressible humor place it in a class by itself. This book will be of lasting value as a submarine history by an expert and as an enduring military and political analysis. In early 1943 the submarine USS Scorpion, with Paul R. Schratz as torpedo officer, slipped into the shallow waters east of Tokyo, laid a minefield, and made successful torpedo attacks on merchant shipping. Schratz participated in many more patrols in heavily mined Japanese waters as executive officer of the Sterlet and the Atule. At war's end he participated in the Japanese surrender, aided the release of American POWs, and had a key role in the disarming of enemy suicide submarines. He then took command of the revolutionary new Japanese submarine I-203 and returned it to Pearl Harbor. But this was far from the end of Schratz's submarine career. In 1949 he commissioned the ultramodern USS Pickerel, the most deadly submarine then afloat, and set a world's record in a 21-day, 5,200-mile submerged passage from Hong Kong to Honolulu. With the outbreak of the Korean War, the Pickerel was immediately sent to Korea to participate in secret intelligence operations only recently declassified and never before revealed in print. Schratz's broad military experience makes this a far from ordinary memoir. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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