Fight for the Sea: Naval Adventures from World War II Book

Acknowledgments	ix
September-December 1939
1 I Went Down with the Royal Oak	3
2 Conquering the Magnetic Mine	8
3 The Battle of the River Plate	20
January-December 1940
4 One Ship and Two Men	27
5 The Jervis Bay	36
January-December 1941
Malta Submarines	43
7 Pearl Harbor and After	52
January-May 1942
8 The Battle of the Channel	65
9 The Atlantic and the Pacific	69
10 Bomb Disposal on a Submarine	74
11 Enter the Rescue Ships	79
12 Submarine Attack in Corfu Harbor	88
13 The Battle of the Coral Sea	93
June-December 1942
14 Convoy PQ17	103
15 Midway	115
16 A Girl Called Johnnie	119
17 Invasion of the Solomons	129
18 Loss of the Leedstown	135
19 Guadalcanal and Tassafaronga	138
20 Rescue Ships inTrouble	147
January-December 1943
21 Americans in the Atlantic	155
22 Yanks on Their Way Back	161
23 John Kennedy and PT-109	164
24 Midget Subs Versus the Tirpitz	168
25 Saga of the Liscome Bay	177
January-December 1944
26 The D-day Armada	185
27 The USS Rich: D-day and After	197
28 George Bush and the Flying Casket	202
29 Dace, Darter, and Leyte Gulf	207
January-August 1945
30 Luzon and Iwo Jima	219
31 Okinawa and the Kamikazes	224
32 British Midget Sub Versus Japanese Cruiser	234
33 The Final Victory	240