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Store Events - November 7, 10:00 a.m.
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Time: Saturday, November 7, 2009 10:00 a.m.
Location: Pritzker Military Library 610 N. Fairbanks Ct., Chicago
Title of Event: SUBMARINE SATURDAY - ROBERT SCHULTZ and STEPHEN MOORE
At 10 a.m. and 12 noon,
SUBMARINE SATURDAY.
ROBERT SCHULTZ speaks at 10 a.m. about his book We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman’s Pacific War and STEPHEN MOORE discusses Presumed Lost: The Incredible Ordeal of America’s Submarine POWs during the Pacific War at 12 noon. Free of charge. Reservations requested: 312 587-0234.
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We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War
by
Schultz, Robert,
Shell, James
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$34.95
Published: US Naval Institute Press, 2009
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
A sailor's extraordinary experiences on an American submarine in the Pacific are candidly reported in this eyewitness account of war from a torpedoman's perspective. Robert Hunt managed to survive twelve consecutive war patrols on the submarine USS Tambor. During the course of the war, Hunt was everywhere that mattered in the Pacific. He stood on the bow of the Tambor as it cruised into Pearl Harbor just days after the devastation of the Japanese air raid, peered through binoculars as his boat shadowed Japanese cruisers at the Battle of Midway, ferried guns and supplies to American guerilla fighters in the Philippines, fired torpedoes that sank vital Japanese shipping, and survived a near-fatal, seventeen-hour depth-charge attack. This WWII torpedoman's account of the war offers the rare perspective of an enlisted seaman that is not available in the more common officer accounts.
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Presumed Lost: The Incredible Ordeal of America's Submarine POWs During the Pacific War
by
Moore, Stephen L.
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$37.95
Published: US Naval Institute Press, 2009
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
When submarines failed to return to port from patrol, they were officially listed by the Navy as "overdue and presumed lost." Loved ones were notified by the War Department that their siblings, spouses, and sons were missing in action and presumed lost. While 52 U.S. submarines were sunk in the Pacific, the Japanese took prisoners of war from the survivors of only seven of these lost submarines. Presumed Lost is the compelling story of the final patrols of those seven submarines and the long captivity of the survivors. Of the 196 sailors taken prisoner, 158 would survive the horrors of the POW camps, where torture, starvation, and slave labor were common. This is the most complete and accurate record of their captivity experiences ever compiled. Author Stephen L. Moore draws on personal interviews with the survivors, as well as on diaries, family archives, and POW statements to reveal new details and correct longstanding errors in previously published accounts.
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