War in the boats : my World War II submarine battles

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Title:

War in the boats : my World War II submarine battles

Author:

Ruhe, William J.

ISBN:

9780028810843

9781574880281

Edition:

Brassey's Five-Star Paperback Edition

Publication Information:

Washington [D.C.] : Brassey's, 1996, c1994.

Physical Description:

x, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Personal Subject:

Ruhe, William J.

Corporate Subject:

United States. Navy -- Biography.

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations -- Submarine.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Biography, American.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean.

Sailors -- United States -- Biography.

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Lake Elmo Library	940.54 RUH	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

Submarine duty in World War II was extraodinarily dangerous - more than 20 per cent of US submariners lost their lives. What kind of man faced these odds, day after day, in a cramped, leaky sub hundreds of feet below the sea? Bill Ruhe was one. A 26-year-old ensign, he kept a journal on eight action-filled patrols against the Japanese in the South Pacific. withstood its extreme pressures.

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