“ ‘Good-by, Captain …’ ”: ibid., 197.
“The tension of these last …”: ibid., 191.
“He was big and brawny …”: ibid., viii.
“By the autumn of 1944 …”: Roscoe, 417.
SUBMARINE SCHOOL: A Bit about Tonnage
Tonnage is: Alden and McDonald, 21.
“Displacement is calculated …”: ibid.
“A Japanese freighter of 5,000 …”: Jackson, 24.
USS WAHOO
“The ship was called …”: SWR, SS-238 Wahoo.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
“After exhausting months of drills …”: Grider and Sims, War Fish, 33.
“Dudley greeted each of us …”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 71–72.
“ ‘Don’t call me Mister …’ ”: Sterling, Wake of the Wahoo, 26.
“It was one of life’s touchy moments …”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 84.
“I loved this ship …”: ibid., 104.
PART THREE
“Mush was in his element …”: Grider and Sims, 57.
“Morton feared nothing …”: Roscoe, 205.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
“Everybody liked Mush,”: Grider and Sims, 51.
“ ‘Now, you’re going to be …’ ”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 114.
“I could feel the stirring …”: Sterling, 81.
“ ‘Every smoke trace …’ ”: ibid., 86.
“ ‘Any customers, Yeo?’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘That’s the kind of stuff …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘Wait a minute … I’m going …’ ”: ibid., 88.
“This was the first time …”: ibid.
“The thing that caught …”: ibid., 89.
“ ‘Any of you men ever…’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘We have a special mission …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘Would you guys …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘Guess I’ll go back …’ ”: ibid., 90.
“ ‘Rowdydow.’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘Do you think he’s crazy? …’ ”: ibid.
“It was an awe-inspiring night …”: ibid., 91.
“The whole universe …”: ibid.
“This was another innovation …”: ibid., 92–93.
“ ‘Clear the bridge.’ ”: ibid., 93.
“all two thousand pounds …”: ibid.
“ ‘I bet you don’t …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘Attaboy, Yeo …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘We clipped three seconds …’ ”: ibid.
“Most of them could be …”: ibid., 93.
SUBMARINE SCHOOL: Dive!
“There’s no such command …”: Sheridan, Overdue and Presumed Lost, 13.
“It’s an uncomfortable feeling …”: ibid., 19.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
“Our charts simply showed …”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 133.
“How could we reconnoiter … ?”: Grider and Sims, 54.
“ ‘It means we take a cautious …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘The only way you can …’ ”: ibid.
“Now it was clear …”: ibid., 54–55.
“ ‘Hey, Mr. Grider …’ ”: ibid., 55.
“A couple of months before …”: ibid.
“The outline of Wewak …”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 133.
“When I thought …”: Grider and Sims, 56.
“Mush was delighted …”: ibid.
“Normal prudence …”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 133.
“It was a strange …”: Grider and Sims, 53.
“He wandered up …”: ibid., 53–54.
“ ‘All right, George …’ ”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 134.
“ ‘We’ve been laying off …’ ”: Sterling, 94.
“ ‘The Old Man spotted …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘How’s things up there? …’ ”: ibid., 95.
“ ‘I guess he’s like me …’ ”: ibid.
“The atmosphere was heavy …”: ibid.
“ ‘Every person is the center …’ ”: ibid.
“Wahoo was my cocoon …”: ibid.
“What kind of Japanese warships …”: ibid.
CHAPTER TWENTY
“We spent the entire morning …”: Grider and Sims, 57.
“all of us in the conning tower …”: ibid.
“few captains other than Mush …”: ibid.
“For all the tension within us …”: ibid.
“ ‘I have the periscope …’ ”: ibid., 58.
“ ‘Dick … you’re in low power.’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘Down periscope! … All back …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘Well, Captain …’ ”: ibid.
“We would not leave …”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 136–137.
“The two of them …”: Grider and Sims, 58.
“ ‘We’ll take him …’ ”: ibid., 59.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
“We had the element of surprise …”: ibid.
“Now our plan to catch …”: ibid., 60.
“ ‘She’s up-anchored …’ ”: Sterling, 96.
“I believed it was …”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 135.
“Wahoo’s hull bucked …”: Sterling, 96.
“ ‘All hot …’ ”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 138.
“The situation had changed …”: Grider and Sims, 61.
“ ‘All right,’ said Mush … ”: ibid.
“We had talked about down-the-throats …”: ibid.
“Now I remembered …”: ibid., 62.
“For a fleeting moment …”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 138.
“ ‘Stand by to fire … five!’ ”: Grider and Sims, 62.
“ ‘Bring her up, Hank …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘He’s still coming …’ ”: ibid.
“How many were left? …”: Sterling, 97.
“utterly cool”; “had been lost …”: Grider and Sims, 62.
“I watched her come …”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 138.
“ ‘When shall I fire …’ ”: Grider and Sims, 62.
“ ‘Well, for heaven’s sake …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘Fire six! …’ ”: ibid.
“I couldn’t take her …”: ibid., 62–63.
“The first explosion was loud …”: ibid., 63.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
“Ten, twenty, thirty …”: ibid.
“ ‘Jeez …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘Well, by God …’ ”: ibid.
“a mighty roar and cracking …”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 139.
“ ‘It’s a hit!’ ”: Sterling, 97.
“ ‘Bring her back up …’ ”: Grider and Sims, 63.
“Bedlam broke loose …”: ibid., 63–64.
“A line had formed …”: Sterling, 97–98.
“ ‘Chow will be spoiled …’ ”: ibid., 98.
“ ‘The war is one Japanese destroyer …’ ”: ibid.
the destroyer … Harusame: Holmes, Undersea Victory, 199.
“ ‘All my nerves are tied up …’ ”: Sterling, 99.
“ ‘Get your depth-charge medicine …’ ”: ibid.
“We were still celebrating …”: Grider and Sims, 64.
“Three blasts sent us …”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 141.
“ ‘George, you take over …’ ”: ibid., 142.
“The conduct and discipline …”: SWR, SS-238 Wahoo.
“When the sun balanced …”: Sterling, 100.
“I came below decks …”: ibid.
SUBMARINE SCHOOL: Attack Strategies after Pearl Harbor
“Ideas about what a submarine …”: Grider and Sims, 29.
“The ‘skipper problem’ …”: Personnel figures from Blair, 818.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
“Our crew pitched up …”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 142.
“The great weakness …”: Grider and Sims, 68–69.
“We were entering …”: ibid., 70.
“Before the day ended …”: ibid.
“ ‘Let’s finish him off …’ ”: ibid., 71.
“Our battery was getting …”: ibid., 72.
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� ‘Every one who does …’ ”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 153.
“Some Japanese troops …”: ibid., 154.
how many people died: Death toll from DeRose, Unrestricted Warfare, 94.
“To some submariners …”: Blair, 386.
“We made quite a stir …”: Grider and Sims, 82–83.
“put a crack in …”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 175.
“Mush had talked to her …”: Grider and Sims, 83.
“ ‘Tenacity, Dick …’ ”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 162.
“ ‘You’re not leading enough …’ ”: Sterling, 135.
“Morton had demonstrated …”: O’Kane, Wahoo, 177.
“In round figures, we had …”: ibid.
“Only one question …”: Grider and Sims, 83.
“I groaned …”: ibid.
“I never saw him again,”: ibid., 85.
“I left the Wahoo …”: ibid., 91.
“the homemade chart of Wewak …”: ibid., 86.
“A big controversy …”: ibid.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
“Mush was boiling mad …”: Lockwood, 98.
“All Morton wanted …”: ibid.
“ ‘Yeo, I’m going to ask …’ ”: Sterling, 229.
“ ‘Why, you’re Gene Tunney …’ ”: ibid., 232.
“I thought, Oh brother, …”: ibid., 233.
“ ‘The Commander has a fine idea …’ ”: ibid.
“‘The men will receive it …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘We’ve got an hour …’ ”: ibid., 236.
“I had been complimented …”: ibid., 237.
“I heard the diesels …”: ibid., 238.
“Days dragged by …”: Lockwood, 110–111.
“This makes her final total …”: ibid., 111.
“ ‘What happened, George?’ ”: Grider and Sims, 87.
“By now virtually all …”: ibid., 88.
“I like to think …”: Beach, Submarine!, 65.
PART FOUR
“It is one thing to be …”: Grider and Sims, 131, 133.
“O’Kane is the fightingest …”: SWR, SS-238 Wahoo.
“Submariners are always asked …”: Beach, Salt and Steel, 87.
USS TANG
Tang: SWR, SS-306 Tang.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
“My beloved Wahoo …”: O’Kane, Clear the Bridge!, 50.
“Tang had no bugs …”: ibid., 27.
“ ‘Why, only the Chief …’ ”: ibid., 25.
“It was the answer I had expected …”: ibid.
“If a steward became adept …”: ibid., 26.
“I had to shake my head …”: ibid., 89.
“a vibrant ship …”: O’Kane, Clear the Bridge!, 52.
“‘All hands are aboard …’ ”: ibid.
DISPATCH: The Officer in Charge of Ice Cream
“ ‘We think we know where …’ ”: Beach, 90.
“Stinky—now known as …”: ibid., 92.
“Even if the Captain …”: ibid., 94.
DISPATCH: Heads or Tails? …
“We had prepared a can …”: ibid., 167.
“Instead,” reported Flasher’s …”: ibid.
“Too little has been written …”: ibid., 167–168.
“No one on Flasher ever knew …”: ibid., 167.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
“a name was to be had …”: Monroe-Jones and Green, 133.
“he was flabbergasted …”: ibid.
“While we were talking …”: ibid.
“ ‘Steward, what … did you spill …’ ”: ibid., 134.
“ ‘Gleason to the captain’s cabin …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘Where is it …’ ”: ibid.
“The skipper’s eyes …”: ibid., 135.
“ ‘I just couldn’t throw …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘I have no idea, sir …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘Although it’s very unusual …’ ”: ibid.
“We finally found her …”: ibid., 136.
“When my mother saw …”: ibid.
“The dog, LUAU, …”: SWR, SS-411 Spadefish.
“ ‘The whole ship was awake …’ ”: Moore, Presumed Lost, 185.
“22:48 FLASH NEWS …”: SWR, SS-411 Spadefish.
DISPATCH: The Stowaway Rat
“a real monster …”: Monroe-Jones and Green, 122.
“prove that I still had …”: ibid.
“I gave up …”: ibid., 123.
“By now I had grown …”: ibid., 124.
“I imagined him enjoying …”: ibid.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
“Sometimes the ships …”: O’Kane, Clear the Bridge!, 101.
“When a person walks down …”: ibid., 102.
“ ‘It’s all in here …’ ”: ibid., 104.
“The enemy closed …”: ibid., 106.
“In a few minutes it would be …”: ibid., 106–107.
“ ‘We’re right on,’ ”: ibid., 107.
“I had,” he said later … : ibid., 108.
“The destroyer had crossed …”: ibid.
“If we were sighted …”: ibid., 108–109.
“ ‘Constant bearing—mark …’ ”: ibid., 109.
“ ‘Level off at five …’ ”: ibid., 110.
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
“ ‘Blow safety …’ ”: ibid., 111.
“We held on, waiting …”: ibid.
“The scene was not …”: ibid.
“ ‘Stop pumping,’ ”: ibid., 112.
“An axiom of antisubmarine …”: ibid., 114.
“Perhaps it was wishful thinking …”: ibid.
“The destroyer would be getting …”: ibid.
“their fast swish-swish-swish …”: ibid.
“a highly agreeable parting.”: ibid., 115.
“The sea was all ours …”: ibid., 116.
“Gone was the former glossiness …”: ibid., 130.
“To a man they were …”: ibid.
“Submarines were an unknown …”: Lockwood, 252–253.
“ ‘I thought that I had been …’ ”: ibid.
“ ‘We picked him up …’ ”: ibid.
During her second patrol … air strikes: Truk strategy from Blair, 607.
“Lifeguard was our mission …”: O’Kane, Clear the Bridge!, 161.
“Tang lit out …”: ibid., 170.
“ ‘Thar she blows!’ ”: ibid.
“an old-fashioned man-overboard …”: ibid.
“Time and time again, it seemed …”: ibid., 182–183.
“There had been sub-air …”: ibid., 191.
“Tang was a happy ship …”: ibid., 187.
DISPATCH: A Historic Operation at Sea
“ ‘I can do it …’ ”: Blair, 291.
“Lipes devised surgical instruments …”: ibid., 292.
“The seaman came into …”: Lockwood, 37.
“ ‘Good Lord … will a shot …’ ”: ibid.
“His courage, resourcefulness …”: ibid.
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
“ ‘You’ve got some small broken bones …’ ”: ibid., 384.
“The torpedo, our very last …”: ibid., 456.
“ ‘All ahead emergency …’ ”: ibid.
“All stories seemed …”: Beach, Submarine!, 183.
“ ‘All I could do …’ ”: DeRose, 226.
CHAPTER THIRTY
144 airmen: Lockwood, 244.
“Ever since the loss of Wahoo …”: Roscoe, 478.
Getting in and out … : Sea of Japan from Blair, 857.
FM sonar gear: Mine detection from Roscoe, 479.
Lockwood was eager: Lockwood training from Blair, 858.
“ ‘There was a scraping …’ ”: ibid., 861.
“ ‘Had Sea Dog or Crevalle …’ ”: ibid., 860.
“ ‘All hands breathed …’ ”: Blair, 861.
“The Hell Cats turned out to be …”: ibid., 863.
Over the next ten days: Hellcat
s statistics from ibid.
“ ‘When I came out here …’ ”: Sasgen, Hellcats, 56.
“ ‘our country, the place where …’ ”: ibid., 68.
“ ‘so deeply and completely …’ ”: ibid., 220.
“ ‘Dearest Sweetest Love …’ ”: Sarah Edge’s letter from ibid., 233–234.
EPILOGUE
“The valiant efforts …”: Roscoe, 494.
“ ‘The long-awaited day …’ ”: Sasgen, 241.
“ ‘Cease offensive operations …’ ”: Blair, 870.
“ ‘Captain, I talked it over …’ ”: Blair, 871.
“Thirty of us had been …”: O’Kane, Clear the Bridge!, 466.
“Just when everything seemed its darkest …”: ibid.
“We all weighed in …”: ibid.
“He was just skin and bones …”: Lockwood, 327.
“In just over four …”: Blair, 769.
“There was no assurance …”: O’Kane, Clear the Bridge!, 466.
“ ‘Let us pray …’ ”: Blair, 873.
AFTER SECTION
“What we saw and did …”: Mendenhall, Submarine Diary, xvi.
ON ETERNAL PATROL
The first confirmed … attack number 4,735: First and last sinkings of Japanese ships from Roscoe, 490; Blair, 870; Alden and McDonald, 334.
FACTS AND FIGURES
4,472 separate attacks: Alden and McDonald, 335.
Although figures have continued … reduction in tonnage: Blair, 80, 82, 877–879.
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