Lucky 73
Subtitle: USS Pampanito's unlikely rescue of Allied POWs in WWII
By: Aldona Sendzikas ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene Allen Smith.
Series: New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780813034270
Subjects: Pampanito (Submarine); United States. -- Navy -- Search and rescue operations -- Pacific Ocean -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American; World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations -- Submarine; World War, 1939-1945 -- Search and rescue operations -- Pacific Ocean; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese; Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Prisoners of war -- Australia -- History -- 20th century; Prisoners of war -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Other titles: Lucky seventy three
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The sighting; title: USS Pampanito; title: The fall of Singapore; title: The Burma-Thai railroad; title: The hellships; title: The rescue; title: The POWs aboard the subs; title: Saipan; title: Home; title: Looking back.