Submarine Diary: The Silent Stalking of Japan - Softcover

Mendenhall USN (Ret.), Corwin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557505829 ISBN 13: 9781557505828

Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 2013

Synopsis

A vividly detailed account of life aboard U.S. submarines in the Pacific during World War II.

About this title

About the Author:

Corwin Guy Mendenhall Jr. earned three Silver Stars, a Bronze Star, a Navy Commendation and 13 battle stars during his 20 year Navy career. He rose to the rank of Rear Admiral and later worked as a manager for Texas Instruments before his death in 2006.

From Library Journal:

One of the most interesting memoirs of the American submarine campaign in the Pacific during World War II. Mendenhall was an ensign assigned to the fleet submarine USS Sculpin and stationed at Manila in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. This book is a diary of the seven war patrols he made aboard the Sculpin and the four patrols on the newer Pintado . Though armed with defective torpedoes, these boats were for a time the only U.S. naval force carrying an offensive war to the Japanese. Mendenhall provides a vivid and detailed account of life aboard these World War II subs. He describes attacks on enemy ships, retaliatory depth charging, and life in a small, cramped space with 70 men unable to bathe for 40 or more days. Through Mendenhall's diary, the reader can follow the course of the submarine war and glimpse the sailors' daily life. Highly rec ommended.
- George F. Scheck, Naval Underwater Systems Ctr. Lib., Newport
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About this edition

• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1557505829
• ISBN 13: 9781557505828
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320