
First Shot
The Untold Story of the Japanese Minisubs That Attacked Pearl Harbor
John Craddock(Author)
International Marine Publishing Co
Published on 16. November 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-07-147911-0 (ISBN)
Description
"If we had only known even a bit of what John Craddock tells us now, our own history could have been so very different."
--Sherry Sontag, coauthor of Blind Man's Bluff
In First Shot, John Craddock investigates a little-known but clear eleventh-hour warning that, had it been heeded, might have enabled the Navy's Pearl Harbor command to blunt the Japanese assault and save ships and lives. Craddock reveals that the attack plan of Japan's Admiral Yamamoto included five midget submarines, each carrying two men and two torpedoes. First Shot vividly recreates the action on the deck of the U.S.S. Ward on the morning of December 7 as the outmoded relic of an earlier war engaged a tiny, state-of-the-art undersea fighting machine.
--Sherry Sontag, coauthor of Blind Man's Bluff
In First Shot, John Craddock investigates a little-known but clear eleventh-hour warning that, had it been heeded, might have enabled the Navy's Pearl Harbor command to blunt the Japanese assault and save ships and lives. Craddock reveals that the attack plan of Japan's Admiral Yamamoto included five midget submarines, each carrying two men and two torpedoes. First Shot vividly recreates the action on the deck of the U.S.S. Ward on the morning of December 7 as the outmoded relic of an earlier war engaged a tiny, state-of-the-art undersea fighting machine.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Rockport, ME
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
2 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-147911-0 (9780071479110)
Schweitzer Classification
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