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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Shipwreck search Shipwreck search Sally M. Walker What a discovery! Deep under the Atlantic Ocean, divers found a shipwreck like no other. It was the H. L. Hunley, a submarine that had sunk during the Civil War! A team of scientists from all over th… OL15024348W
Hitler's Naval War Hitler's Naval War Cajus Bekker Bekker does a wonderful job highlighting the major surface and U-boat actions and, the somewhat lesser known actions of the German Kriegsmarine in WWII. As a intellegence officer in WWII, Bekker has … OL15409868W
Operation Storm Operation Storm John J. Geoghegan Discusses the top-secret Japanese submarine project in World War II, creating submarines designed to work as underwater aircraft carriers, and the planned attack on U.S. cities that could have change… OL19663349W
Where divers dare Where divers dare Randall S. Peffer "In the tradition of Shadow Divers, this is the gripping true account of the search for German U-boat U-550, the last unfound, diveable wreck of a U-boat off the United States coast, and the battle i… OL19670534W
The Mathews men The Mathews men William Geroux One of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community… OL20030160W
Kaiten Kaiten Michael Mair,Joy Waldron "In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor in Ulithi Harbor, deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa erupted in a ball of flames. Japan's secret weapon, the Kaiten--a man… OL21090591W
Submarines in the Pacific Submarines in the Pacific G. C. Skipper Describes the role of American submarines during World War II as they patrolled the Pacific Ocean in deadly wolf packs. OL5592698W
Battleground Atlantic Battleground Atlantic Richard N. Billings In June, 1944, U.S. Navy warplanes sank a Japanese submarine called the I-52 in the Atlantic, an event of enormous strategic importance. For the I-52 was to return to Japan with the lethal ingredient… OL5836385W