Spadefish: On Patrol with aTop-Scoring WWII Submarine

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	• Spadefish: On Patrol with a Top-Scoring WWII Submarine Stephen L. Moore Atriad Press, 2006 - 463 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Spadefish Book Review

I find this book very good reading. The author has interviewed many crew members and related their stories of the actions as they saw it. Recommended reading for those who wish to know what submarine warefare was like.

Spadefish: On Patrol with aTop-Scoring WWII Submarine

This book recounts in great detail the exploits of the crewmembers of this WW II submarine. In fact, it reads much like a debriefing by revealing exact dates, times, and locations of the sub's exploits both in and out of combat. The author credits crewmembers by name and rank of the parts they played in essentially all of the sub's engagements. Anyone who enjoys reading about U.S. Navy heroics will enjoy this book. The author provides a valuable service by preserving a detailed history of one segment of undersea warfare.

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Well Done!

This author has done a great job of balancing the interests of those who look for the facts and figures of history and those who see that history through the lives of those who lived it. He creates the sense of what those crew members accomplished and lived through without ever losing the focus on the fact that the numbers were amazing in themselves. Extremely well done!

Underwood and Spadefish

There is a new genre surrounding the 'biographies' of WW2 submarines namely of incorporating as many of the crew members as possible in the review of wartime patrols. This can make the book lengthy and difficult to follow. The author manages to avoid the pitfalls.

It is a good read. I thoroughly enjoyed the book

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Life aboard a WWII submarine

Spadefish was the only sub launched in 1944 to make the top five in almost every catagory. Interviews with many former crew members give an excellent view of life on board. She only went on five patrols before the war ended the most scary with Operation Barney in the Sea of Japan.Using FM sonar(very unreliable) to navigate mine fields entering and leaving for the first time since the loss of Wahoo.This sub had two dogs on board,Luau from commissioning and her pup Seaweed later on. Both stayed on until decommisioning. Spadefish only served two years and turned in a very impressive record. I highly recomend this book

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One glance at the Spadefish (SS-411) battle flag shows that she was one of the most successful World War II submarines Spadefish was the only U.S. submarine launched in 1944 to become one of the war's top ten scoring boats. She downed six ships on her maiden double-barreled patrol and never looked back.

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