Silent and unseen : on patrol in three Cold War attack submarines /
"Silent and Unseen is a memoir of a submariner's life on a U.S. attack submarine during the Cold War by Capt. Alfred S. McLaren, an experienced submarine officer and nuclear attack submarine commander. He describes in riveting detail the significant events that occurred early in the Cold W...
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Annapolis, Maryland :
Naval Institute Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; List of Photos and Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Part I. USS Greenfish (SS 351) Workhorse of the Pacific; 1. Early History and Post-World War II Modifications ; 2. On Board USS Greenfish ; 3. Our First Depoloyment: Western Pacific 1958; 4. Coming into Yokosuka; 5. Off the Soviet Far East Coast ; 6. Homeward to Pearl Harbor ; PART II. USS Seadragon (SSN 584) Arctic Pioneer; 7. My First Nuclear Submarine; 8. Into Davis Strait and Baffin Bay ; 9. Through the Northwest Passage; 10. Surfacing at the Pole ; 11. The Bering Strait and Nome.
- 12. Pearl Harbor at Last 13. A New Commanding Officer ; PART III. USS Skipjack (SSN 585) Root of the New Sea Power; 14. First Months on Board ; 15. In the Mediterranean ; 16. Home Port in New London ; 17. Evaluation of the Nuclear Attack Submarine ; 18. A Year to Remember; 19. One More Cold War Mission and a Change of Command; 20. England and Then Home ; Epilogue; Notes ; Index ; About the Author.
