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Eight survived, the harrowing story of the USS Flier and the only downed World War II submariners to survive and evade capture, Douglas A. Campbell

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Eight survived, the harrowing story of the USS Flier and the only downed World War II submariners to survive and evade capture, Douglas A. Campbell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-268) and index

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contains biographical information

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platesillustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Eight survived

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

601045187

Responsibility statement

Douglas A. Campbell

Sub title

the harrowing story of the USS Flier and the only downed World War II submariners to survive and evade capture

Summary

The incredible wartime saga of the only American submariners to survive the sinking of their ship and evade enemy capture in WWII. On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.S. submarine Flier struck a mine in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines as it steamed along the surface. All but fifteen of the more than eighty-strong crew went down with the vessel. Of those left floating in the dark, eight survived by swimming for seventeen hours before washing ashore on an uninhabited island. The story of the Flier and its eight survivors is wholly unique in the annals of U.S. military history. Eight Survived tells the gripping story of the doomed submarine and its crew from its first patrol, during which it sank several enemy ships, to the explosion in the Sulu Sea. Drawing on interviews with the survivors and on a visit to the jungle where they washed ashore--where a cast of fascinating characters helped the U.S. sailors evade the Japanese. Douglas Campbell fully captures the combination of extraordinary courage and luck that marked one of the most heroic episodes of World War II.--Publisher description

Table Of Contents

Map of the World War II career of the USS Flier -- Treacherous passage -- Pacific peril -- Missing from action -- A gathering of men -- A second chance -- Welcome to the War -- Strangers in their native land -- The wages of winners -- Mines and mariners -- Back toward glory -- Trapped in the path of war -- Changed orders -- In the shadow of death -- Choosing freedom -- Spirits of the land -- By land and by sea -- Into the jungle -- Escape -- Map of the eight submariners' survival and rescue

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