Silent Sea (The Silent War Book 2)

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As they listened to the death throes of their sister ship <i>Mako</i> sinking in the Pacific where
the waters were six miles deep, the crew of USS <i>Eelfish</i> suddenly came of
age. They were a new breed: a brand-new fleet submarine crewed by draftees and
reservists. Hidebound regular Navy officers believed they wouldn’t fight. But fight they did with reckless
abandon, proving themselves on two fronts — against the Japanese at sea, and
against their own Admirals, who clung to outmoded concepts of how to wage war
under the sea.This true-to-life novel moves at breathtaking speed from the
invasion of Guadalcanal through the battle of the Philippine Sea and to the
coast of Japan. By the end of the war, submarines such as <i>Eelfish</i> had so
tightened the noose of naval blockade around Japan that the enemy was finished
as an industrial nation, unable to fight effectively.But American
submariners paid dearly for their victories. One out of every five men who went
to sea in submarines in the Pacific died in combat, the highest percentage of
any branch of the U.S. Armed
Forces. This is a novel about their exploits, how they fought, how they loved,
and how they died, written by a man who was there.

Harry Homewood was a qualified submariner before he was seventeen years old, having lied to the Navy about his age, and serving in a little "S"-boat in the old Asiatic Fleet. After Pearl Harbor he reenlisted and made eleven war patrols in the Southwest Pacific. He later became Chicago Bureau Chief for <i>Newsweek</i>, chief editorial writer for the <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i>, and for eleven years had his own weekly news program syndicated to thirty-two PBS television stations.