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Maru Killer
Dave Bouslog
其他書名
War Patrols of the USS Seahorse
出版R.A. Cline, 2001
主題History / Military / NavalHistory / Military / Vehicles / Sea
ISBN09663235489780966323542
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SJZGswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋USS Seahorse (SS-304) was one of the top ranked submarines of World War II. In the Pacific she completed eight impressive war patrols under four different skippers––two of them earned the coveted Navy Cross. Her most successful CO was Commander Slade D. Cutter of Chicago, Illinois. As captain of Seahorse, Cutter destroyed 19 enemy ships, placing him second in the overall score for submarine commanders of World War II. Only Commander "Dick" O'Kane would surpass him. At wars end in 1945, Seahorse ranked sixth in the number of ships destroyed and twelfth in tonnage sunk. Commissioned in 1943, Seahorse and her crew quickly established a name for themselves, sinking nine Japanese vessels totaling over 30,000 tons, on just her second war patrol. During her seventh patrol Seahorse was subjected to one of the most ferocious depth charge attacks of World War II––miraculously, the submarine and her crew survived. In Maru Killer survivors recount the terrible ordeal for the very first time. To make Maru Killer a true and factual story of Seahorse’s operational history, author Dave Bouslog made exclusive use of the sub’s war patrol reports and conducted extensive interviews and correspondence with her surviving officers and enlisted men.