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The USS Flier : Death and Survival on a World War II Submarine by Michael Sturma is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The USS Flier : Death and Survival on a World War II Submarine about?
The fate of the USS Flier is one of the most astonishing stories of the Second World War. On August 13, 1944, the submarine struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Sulu Sea in less than one minute, leaving only fourteen of its crew of eighty-six hands alive. After enduring eighteen hours in the water, eight remaining survivors swam to a remote island controlled by the Japanese. Deep behind enemy lines and without food or drinking water, the crewmen realized that their struggle for survival had just begun. On its first war patrol, the unlucky Flier made it from Pearl Harbor to Midway where it ran aground on a reef. After extensive repairs and a formal military inquiry, the Flier set out once again, this time completing a distinguished patrol from Pearl Harbor to Fremantle, Western Australia. Though the Flier's next mission would be its final one, that mission is important for several reasons: the story of the Flier's sinking illuminates the nature of World War II underwater warfare and naval protocol and demonstrates the high degree of cooperation that existed among submariners, coast watchers, and guerrillas in the Philippines. The eight sailors who survived the disaster became
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- Author
- Michael Sturma
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813192246
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.75 / 5 (17 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14