Pigboat 39
Subtitle: an American sub goes to war
By: Bobette Gugliotta ; [technical consultation and drawings by Guy F. Gugliotta].
Contributors: Gugliotta, Guy F.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations -- Submarine.; S-39 (Submarine); World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American.
Other titles: Pigboat thirty-nine.
Description: "Japan has started hostilities, govern yourselves accordingly. That is the message at 0330 on December 8, 1941, found the submarine S-39--a veteran of 16 years on the China station--anchored in the Philippine harbor of Masbate. Pigboat 39 is the gripping story of this venerable submarine and the courage, skill, and suffering of her officers and men. Working together in the tight and perilous confines of the old sub, fighting with her primitive equipment, they manage to sink two enemy ships, then to elude the onrushing Japanese and slip through the Sunda Strait to a temporary haven in Australia, before sailing to further action in the Solomon Islands."
Notes: Bibliography: p. [214]-217.
Map on lining papers.
Includes index.