Kershaw, Alex

Summary: Details the history of the U.S. Navy submarine Tang in the Pacific theater of World War II, the explosion that led to its sinking, the ordeal of its surviving crew members, and their capture by the Japanese followed by months of brutal captivity.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2008

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Hopkinson, Deborah

Summary: The story of America's little known war-within-a war -- that of the "silent service" -- U.S. submarine warfare during World War II.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 950.54 HOP

Humble, Richard.

Summary: A brief history of German submarine warfare during World War II and the measures taken by the Allies to combat the U-boats.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1990

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 940.54 HUM

Summary: The realities of submarine warfare during World War II in the Pacific is centered around two submarine officers who are destined to clash with each other from the first moment they meet.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Entertainment 1999

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McCullough, Jonathan J.

Summary: "There was no way for the commander of the USS Sailfish to know that the Japanese aircraft carrier he just torpedoed actually had on board several crew members of the USS Sculpin, the sister sub to the Sailfish which had been sunk just days earlier by enemy fire. This is the extraordinary story of the events that led to this amazing twist of fate and what happened to the Sculpin...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008

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Jordan, David (David John)

Summary: Hitler's U-boat arm formed the backbone of the German war effort at sea. Th is study describes the evolution, design, construction, strategy and techno logy of these mighty oceanic submarines.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 2002

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Morison, Samuel Eliot

Contents: Appendix I. Losses of merchant shipping -- Appendix II. Monthly sinkings of German and Italian submarines -- Appendix III. Arming of merchant vessels -- Appendix IV. Mine fields laid by U-boats in Western Atlantic, 1942 -- Appendix V. The support force Atlantic Fleet -- Appendix VI. The Atlantic Fleet of the United States Navy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1947

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Williams, Andrew.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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Kershaw, Alex.

Summary: Details the history of the U.S. Navy submarine Tang in the Pacific theater of World War II, the explosion that led to its sinking, the ordeal of its surviving crew members, and their capture by the Japanese followed by months of brutal captivity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008

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Ward, H. (Hubert)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1stBooks Library 2001

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Andrade, Allan

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tern Book Co. 1997

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Jones, David

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2005

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Kahn, David

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1991

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Parkin, Simon

Summary: "The triumphant true story of the young women who helped to devise the winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive victory in the Battle of the Atlantic." -- From book jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 PAR

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Moore, Stephen L.

Summary: In 1939 off the New England coast, the submarine USS Squalus accidentally sinks to the bottom of the sea during a training exercise, killing half her crew. Coming to the rescue is the USS Sculpin, in many ways the Squalus’s twin. As their oxygen supply dwindles, the remaining crew aboard the Squalus are saved in a time-consuming, white-knuckle operation. Eventually the sunken submarine is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Caliber, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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Stanton, Doug

Summary: A young readers edition of Doug Stanton and Michael J. Tougias' New York Times bestseller In Harm's Way--a riveting World War II account of the greatest maritime disaster in US naval history. On July 30, 1945, the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022

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Offley, Edward.

Summary: "On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began to sink. Then a small escort warship blew apart in a violent explosion. Navy warships and aircraft...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014

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Syrett, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 1994

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Padfield, Peter.

Summary: This is the first book to cover all submarine and anti-submarine operations of the major powers, U.S., British, German, Japanese and Italian in the Second World War. The canvas is broad and deep, from the strategic perspective at the top to the cramped and claustrophobic life of the crews in their submersible steel tubes; from the feats of 'ace' commanders to the terrifying experiences of men...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: John Murray 1995

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Colton, Larry.

Summary: Documents the stories of four World War II prisoners of war who were tortured by their Japanese captors, describing the events that led to their imprisonment, the brutal conditions that forged their deep bond, and their considerable struggles to re-acclimate to civilian life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5451 COL