Crash Dive by Larry Bond

Author:Larry Bond
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates

OFF TO CONVOY COLLEGE

FROM Nothing Friendly in the Vicinity

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by Claude C. Connor

Of all the authors in this volume, the one that seems to have sunk into obscurity the most is Claude C. Connor. My research found very little on him, save that he served during four patrols on the USS Guardfish, the submarine that was responsible for a terrible friendly-fire accident (which is hinted at in the title) when it torpedoed and sank the USS Extractor while on patrol. This book was critically acclaimed when it was first published, winning raves by authors such as Clay Blair, author of Silent Victory and Hitler’s U-BoatWar. (His quote about the book: “I can attest to the authenticity and soundness of Claude Connor’s Nothing Friendly in the Vicinity. It is an excellent firsthand account of the Pacific submarine war, and I heartily recommend it.” High praise indeed.) There is no evidence that Mr. Connor wrote anything else during the rest of his life, but it is very possible that with the publication of this memoir, he’d said everything he had to say about his war time experiences.

By 1943, the Allies had borrowed a few tactics from the enemy, and the submarine “wolf pack” was one of them. Connor takes us on patrol from resupplying at a still-battered and rebuilding Pearl Harbor to stalking convoys off the Philippines, and does it all with deceptive ease. His accounts of everyday life aboard a submarine are as engrossing as the tense minutes of a depth-charge attack, and equally informative for both.

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