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“The BRAVEST MAN” The Story of Richard O'Kane & U.S. Submarines in the Pacific War. - By William Tuohy. This is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist William Tuohy's powerful story of Richard H. O’Kane, America's undersea ace of aces. It is also the tale of a few fearless men, submariners all, set against the backdrop of the U.S. submarine war in the Pacific. The grueling battle beneath the waves saw 10 million tons of Japanese shipping sunk by U.S. submariners, but the cost to the U.S. Navy was terrifying. One in five of its boats was destroyed—the highest causality rate of the entire American armed forces. But the fight against a determined enemy was only half the battle. U.S. Navy command problems were kept secret from the men, and in scandalous disaster, submarines were provided with torpedoes that failed in action. O’Kane participated in the most dramatic war patrols of the Pacific War, with duty aboard USS Argonaut (SS-166) USS Wahoo (SS-238)and finally his own boat, USS Tang (SS-306). In a final irony, on it's fifth and final patrol Tang was tragic sunk by its own torpedo. The dramatic escape of nine survivors, including Commander O'Kane, makes for compelling and uneasy reading. Author Tuohy skillfully mixes the heat of battle action with the antics of the tough skippers and their crews to relive an age when heroism was in fashion, a time of threat, danger, challenge and sacrifice. 2001 first Hardback with dust jacket. This (HB) edition is no longer in print. 422 pages, 32 B/W photos, 1 map, a cut-away diagram of an American Fleet submarine and an index.
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