Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II
Eugene B. Fluckey, Corey Snow (Narrator)
The author has an unfortunate name but suffers from no sense of humility. Definitely not Canadian. He owes a debt to the people who built a boat that survived depths beyond its rated soundings, hundreds of depth charges, and rode out a typhoon without diving.
What's unique here is an American Sub in Chinese and Japanese Waters rather than Germans and British in the North Sea.
As ship's captain he is quick to give credit to the men under him for his successful missions. Despite his daring-do he brings all his men back alive, no small feat where so many subs are lost.
He explains jargon when he uses it and spares the reader the tedium of naval protocol.
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