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ix The USS Covington sinks after being torpedoed by a German U-boat. The senior naval leadership of the United States, including some members of the General Board of the Navy, December 1920 The USS S-44 off Cuba in 1929 The USS Barb, one of the most famous fleet submarines Admiral Harold R. Stark on his first day as the Chief of Naval Operations Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner Admiral Edward Kalbfus during the Second World War, presiding as a member of the Naval Court of Inquiry into the Pearl Harbor attack James Fife as a captain in the Second World War Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet and one of the oldest and most respected submariners in the U.S. Navy Sailors assigned to the Submarine Base at Pearl Harbor stare at the carnage caused by the Japanese sneak attack on December 7, 1941. Admiral Harold Stark is decorated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Stark’s direct superior, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. The USS Wahoo (SS 238) enters Pearl Harbor in February 1943 after the most successful war patrol in the war up until that point. One of Wahoo’s confirmed victims, Nittsu Maru, on her way to the bottom in March 1943. ILLUSTRATIONS (following p. 96) ...

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