San Diego, California Jan 1, 2021 (Issuewire.com) - The newly published memoir by Quentin Thomson titled Deadly Patrol—Tales of Life Aboard World War II Pacific Submarines was released through Amazon on the very last day of 2020. Ages have passed since the United States was battling foreign occupation in the state of Alaska with 20-year antique military surplus submarines. The memoir's author passed away in 2015.
Accounts of heroism, incompetence, mechanical failure, piracy, and mutiny season these submarine war patrol narratives across the pacific rim.
Quentin describes playing cards with Edward L. Beach Jr., the future author of Run Silent Run deep, during a late-night officers poker game, along with another officer who had to abandon his submarine at sea and was awaiting a court-marshal at Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
Events described in the book include 21 days after the Pearl Harbor attack, where the US naval fleet in the Pacific was lost, the enemy’s fleet position was unknown, and future attacks were expected imminently.
At the heart of Deadly Patrol—Tales of Life Aboard World War II Pacific Submarines is the incident at Sarana Bay, where frantic sailors wept, spontaneously urinated, cried, and asphyxiated as their captain declared, “We’re done for boys” as a Japanese destroyer laid siege to the SS-34 submarine which was grounded with their propellers turning in the air.
Other notable locations in the book include Hinky Dinks, a mid-century Tiki Bar in Emeryville, California where the captain orders Quentin a Fog Cutter after a foggy coast shakedown cruise from San Diego. Later at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, a well-earned rest bit turns wild with sailors reunited with strong alcohol after bombastic depth charge trauma.
Many accounts by chief engineering officer Quentin Thomson add critical new details to the records of submarines such as the SS-34 which was featured in the TV Show “Run Silent Run Deep”, the USS Skate which served the first submarine lifeguarding mission for airmen crashed at sea and the USS Diodon which pioneered the submarine snorkel after the war.
After the war, Quentin taught engineering at the University of Arizona with a strong ambitious nature to also sell bomb shelters during the cold war, develop housing through a construction business, and invent a universally adopted property ventilation device with a partner engineering firm. He does this, while also the chief fuel engineer for the state of Arizona and the father of seven children.
Deadly Patrol—Tales of Life Aboard World War II Pacific Submarines is available in paperback and as a kindle ebook.
- ASIN: B08RRMT3CK
- Publisher: Independently published (December 31, 2020)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 33 pages
- ISBN-13: 979-8588667234
- Categories: Naval Autobiography, World War II Pacific Submarines, Military History, and Submarine Strategy
- Amazon book page: https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Patrol-Aboard-Pacific-Submarines-ebook/dp/B08RRYGJH6/ref=sr_1_1
- Authors book page: https://official.dustinbaly.com/deadly-patrol/
- Contact Name: Dustin Baly
- Contact Email: dustin@49seoservices.com
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