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<p><P>On November 19, 1943, the submarine <b>USS Sculpin</b>, under attack by the Japanese, slid below the waves for the last time in what would become one of the most remarkable stories in U.S. Naval history. Not only did several crewmembers survive the sinking - an extremely rare event in World War II submarine warfare - but several were aboard a Japanese aircraft carrier enroute to a POW camp when it was in turn torpedoed and sunk by the <b>Sculpin's </b>sister ship, the <b>USS Sailfish</b>. <P>At the end of World War II, several unlikely survivors would tell a tale of endurance against these amazing reversals of fortune. For one officer in particular, who knew that being captured could have meant losing the war for the allies, his struggle was not in surviving, but in sealing his own fate in a heartbreaking act of heroism which culminated in the nation's highest tribute, the Medal of Honor. <P><b>Sculpin </b>Lt. Commander John Phillip Cromwell was one of the few who knew that American Naval Intelligence had succeeded in cracking Japan's top-secret codes. Cromwell also knew that if the Japanese confirmed this by torturing him, it would force Naval Intelligence to change their en

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Author

McCullough, Jonathan J.

Publisher

New York: Grand Central ; London: Little, Brown [distributor]

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780446178402

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

3.78 / 5 (84 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14