Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
Pages: 560
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7627-7282-7 • Paperback • November 2011 • $19.95 • (£13.95)
Mike Ostlund holds a masters degree from the University of Iowa. He is a member of the Naval Submarine League, an associate member of the United States Submarine Veterans, and an honorary research affiliate of NUMA Australia. He lives with his family in Iowa City, Iowa.
Contents
Foreword by George Seiler, Torpedoman, USS Gudgeon
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: Lone Wolf-First War Patrol
Chapter Two: Escape from the East China Sea-Second War Patrol
Chapter Three: The Tide Turns-Third War Patrol
Chapter Four: Fortress Truk-Fourth War Patrol
Chapter Five: Butchery in the Bismarck Sea-Fifth War Patrol
Chapter Six: Commando Operations-Sixth War Patrol
Chapter Seven: Wild Bill, Wild Patrol-Seventh War Patrol
Chapter Eight: Lieutenant Penland and the Kamakura Maru-Eighth War Patrol
Chapter Nine: The Irisher-Ninth War Patrol
Chapter Ten: Reporting for Duty-Tenth War Patrol
Chapter Eleven: Down the Throat-Eleventh War Patrol
Chapter Twelve: Missing, Presumed Lost-Twelfth War Patrol
Chapter Thirteen: The Mysterious Yuoh Island-Twelfth War Patrol, the Theory
Chapter Fourteen: After the Gudgeon
Afterword
Appendix One: Muster Roll of the USS Gudgeon, Patrols 1-12
Appendix Two: Combat Results of the USS Gudgeon
Bibliography
Index
“While there have been many fine books written about the missions . . . of the U.S. submarine fleet in WWII, few if any will be able to compete with the sheer detail and personal accounts presented by Mike Ostlund." —Naval History
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Pacific Theater during World War II
Now in paperback, revised and updated, the stirring and authoritative account of one of World War II's most highly decorated submarines