Eight survived : the harrowing story of the USS Flier and the only downed World War II submariners to survive and evade capture /
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 t...
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Guilford, Conn. :
Lyons Press,
c2010
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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