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Pros
This book gives you a glimpse into what life was like. This propels final patol from being a bloated tourist pamphlet to an interesting book that you can read alone or use it as an accompaniment to planning vacations to see these wonderful examples of... Read More
Keith relates the career of each boat in a workmanlike fashion. We vividly see how they caught their prey, how they attacked and fled to the depths. This book provides a small slice of the history of the remaining boats.
Cons
This entire book could be shortened down to one chapter. The author also has a strange tendency to wander off topic and yammer on about things that have nothing to do the sub at hand. Conspiracy theories of this sort are best with beer and pretzels in... Read More
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At first i was a little taken aback as it was written as though it were a novel in some parts, with the key players in that par... Read More
Shipping
Submarines accounted for 55% of japanese shipping losses in world war ii.
Born in 1938, i was the ship's surgeon on the uss proteus in guam, 1964-66.
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I assume that all who purchased this book had an interest in the subject matter
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The next boat i will visit will be the uss razorback in arkansas and i will surely review the razorback chapter again before i set foot within her pressure hull
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He would never talk about his experiences but now i understand why he wouldnt
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Better yet the subs in this book are still around converted to museums and open to the public
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The down side is that not all of the submarines from the era that are on display have an interesting history
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Many of them were simply launched too late at the end of the war to see much or any fighting at all
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While this doesnt diminish what they are it does make for some dry reading if you were expecting to read exciting tales for each one of the subs
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Submarines accounted for 55 of japanese shipping losses in world war ii
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