Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion

Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion

by Peter F. Stevens
Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion

Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion

by Peter F. Stevens

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Overview

Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion by Peter F. Stevens reveals the incredible true story of the search for and discovery of the USS Grunion. Discovered in 2006 after a decades-long, high-risk search by the Abele brothers—whose father commanded the submarine and met his untimely death aboard it—one question remained: what sank the USS Grunion? Was it a round from a Japanese ship, a catastrophic mechanical failure, or something else—one of the sub’s own torpedoes? For almost half the war, submarine skippers’ complaints about the MK 14 torpedo’s dangerous flaws were ignored by naval brass, who sent the subs out with the defective weapon. Fatal Dive is the first book that documents the entire saga of the ship and its crew and provides compelling evidence that the Grunion was a victim of “The Great Torpedo Scandal of 1941-43.” Fatal Dive finally lays to rest one of World War II’s greatest mysteries.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781596987685
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date: 07/16/2012
Series: World War II Collection
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 903,275
File size: 915 KB

About the Author

Peter F. Stevens, news and features editor of the Boston Irish Reporter, is a veteran journalist with a specialty in historical writing. His work has been syndicated by the New York Times and has been published in dozens of magazines and newspapers. Stevens is also a two-time winner of the International Regional Magazine Association’s Gold Medal for Feature Writing and the award-winning author of The Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels’ Escape to Freedom. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

The Crew of the USS Grunion ix

Prologue xiii

Chapter 1 "We've Got a Target" 1

Chapter 2 An Unconventional Course 7

Chapter 3 The Submariner 17

Chapter 4 "Into the Thick of Things" 27

Chapter 5 Battle Stations 39

Chapter 6 The Enemy Awaiting Them 49

Chapter 7 A Mysterious Message 57

Chapter 8 "As We Waited for the End" 63

Chapter 9 "Missing and Presumed Lost" 73

Chapter 10 Making Do with Less 83

Chapter 11 A Chart, a Clue, and a Chance Meeting 91

Chapter Tweleve Logistics of a Long Shot 99

Chapter 13 "We Haven't Seen the Worst of it Yet" 105

Chapter 14 "That Looks Like a Sub" 115

Chapter 15 "Don't Let Your Desire for This to Be the Right Target Fool You" 127

Chapter 16 By Land, Sea, and Air 135

Chapter 17 "There She Is" 143

Chapter 18 Lost and Found-Again 147

Chapter 19 From Bow to Stern 153

Chapter 20 "They Wanted to Be Found" 165

Epilogue: There One Moment, Gone the Next 169

Appendix 175

Acknowledgements 233

Notes 237

Selected Bibliography 245

Index 249

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