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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Lacks dust jacket. Top edge of back cover has a small bump. ; Illus. , maps, very clean copy, just missing the jacket; 322 pages.

Hardcover. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xii, 322, [2] pages. No DJ. Sticker inside front cover. Illustrations. Maps. List of Maps. Preface; The USS Wichita: Naval War in the North Atlantic; The USS Mackerel: The Gold Dolphins; The USS Scorpion: Tragedy in the Pacific; The USS Sterlet: Early Command?; The USS Atule: Minesweeper; The Demilitarization and Occupation of Japan; The Sorry Sasori; The USS Burrfish: Fast and Loose; The USS Pickerel: Dipsydoodling on Government Time; War under the United Nations Command; and Index. The author shares his war experiences, his role in the Japanese surrender, and his participation in the setting of a world's record for longest submerged voyage. Schratz, Paul R., Capt., USN (Ret.) (1915-1993) was an officer who distinguished himself as a submariner and as a writer and educator. After graduation from the Naval Academy in 1939, he served until late 1941 in the heavy cruiser USS Wichita (CA-45 in the Atlantic. He served in the submarines USS Mackerel (SS-204), USS Scorpion (SS-278), USS Sterlet (SS-392), and USS Atule (SS-403). He commanded the submarine USS Pickerel (SS-524) during Korean War missions and a long submerged transit from Hong Kong to Pearl Harbor. After duty in the political-military policy division of OpNav in the early 1950s, and was later Commander Submarine Division 52. He had duty from 1962 to 1964 on the Joint Staff, including service as a delegate to the 18-nation disarmament conference in Geneva, Switzerland, then served in the Department of Defense. He was on the faculty of the National War College, 1966-68. A fascinating personal memoir of underwater combat in World War II, told by a man who played a major role in those dangerous operations. Frank and beautifully written, Submarine Commander's breezy style and irrepressible humor place it in a class by itself. This book will be of lasting value as a submarine history by an expert and as an enduring military and political analysis. In early 1943 the submarine USS Scorpion, with Paul R. Schratz as torpedo officer, slipped into the shallow waters east of Tokyo, laid a minefield, and made successful torpedo attacks on merchant shipping. Schratz participated in many more patrols in heavily mined Japanese waters as executive officer of the Sterlet and the Atule. At war's end he participated in the Japanese surrender, aided the release of American POWs, and had a key role in the disarming of enemy suicide submarines. He then took command of the revolutionary new Japanese submarine I-203 and returned it to Pearl Harbor. But this was far from the end of Schratz's submarine career. In 1949 he commissioned the ultramodern USS Pickerel, the most deadly submarine then afloat, and set a world's record in a 21-day, 5,200-mile submerged passage from Hong Kong to Honolulu. With the outbreak of the Korean War, the Pickerel was immediately sent to Korea to participate in secret intelligence operations only recently declassified and never before revealed in print. Schratz's broad military experience makes this a far from ordinary memoir. Very good (minor cover soiling).