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With that background I couldn't fail to thoroughly enjoy DeRose's book. It is well written and has the right feel.\"-CHESTER W. NIMITZ JR., rear admiral, USN (Ret.) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sail with American submariners into tightly guarded Japanese home waters; undergo the horror of a depth charge attack; experience the thrill of victory with some of the U.S. Navy's ace submarine skippers. All this--and much more--is contained in James F. DeRose's compelling Unrestricted Warfare. No one interested in the naval side of World War II should be without it.\"-NATHAN MILLER author of War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the outbreak of World War II, the performance of America's growing submarine fleet was handicapped by the conservative peacetime training of its commanders. Avoiding risk and evading detection by the enemy were emphasized over engagement in combat. A new type of aggressive, daring leadership was needed. Unrestricted Warfare dramatically documents the transformation of the \"Silent Service\" into the deadliest fighting force in the Pacific theater.The initial focus is on Dudley \"Mush\" Morton, who virtually seized command of the submarine Wahoo, breaking ingrained patterns of tentative leadership. Morton devised combat techniques so effective that they set the standard for every other sub patrolling in harm's way. Handicapped by torpedoes that frequently failed to detonate, Morton risked a down-the-throat shot at an oncoming destroyer and conducted slashing surface battles won by fire from Wahoo's deck guns. Following his furious attacks on a four-ship convoy, Morton returned to port with a broom affixed to the periscope shears: clean sweep. His motto, famous in the submariner's elite fraternity, was the terse \"Shoot the Sunzabitches.\" Wahoo sank seven ships in ten days on her next patrol, and six ships on her last. Dubbed a \"one-boat wolfpack\" by navy brass, Wahoo sailed into the Sea of Japan on her seventh patrol, never to return. Yet, before the tragic loss, Morton had unleashed a final devastating salvo in the form of the officers who apprenticed under him. In an intriguing feat of investigation, author James DeRose traces the legacy of Wahoo through the officers who served under Morton. Many went on to their own commands on such subs as Flasher, Grayback, and Tang. They followed Morton's aggressive philosophy aboard their subs, while developing their own tactics. DeRose, in particular, follows the exploits of the absolutely fearless Medal of Honor--winner Dick O'Kane and the more prudent, often overlooked George Grider. Only Flasher would survive the war, and Tang's heartbreaking loss is poignantly told.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn exploring the decisive impact of Wahoo's officers on submarine combat, Unrestricted Warfare vividly re-creates the daring deeds of this new breed of hunter\/killer commanders. Readers will experience a bravado torpedo attack made in hull-scraping shallow water, and emergency dives to rivet-popping depths while evading a barrage of depth charges in \"Ashcan Alley.\" By reconciling wartime combat reports, personal memoirs, and declassified postwar documents from both the United States and Japan, DeRose provides a definitive account of the undersea warriors who waged a new brand of warfare in the Pacific theater of World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnrestricted Warfare reveals the dramatic story of the harsh baptism by fire faced by U.S. submarine commanders in World War II. The first skippers went to battle hamstrung by conservative peacetime training and plagued by defective torpedoes. Drawing extensively from now declassified files, Japanese archives, and the testimony of surviving veterans, James DeRose has written a fascinating account of the men and vessels responsible for the only successful submarine campaign of the war. They clearly charted a new course to victory in the Pacific.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eADVANCE PRAISE FOR UNRESTRICTED WARFARE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"James DeRose has done an excellent job-- surprisingly so, in view of his lack of true WWII submarine experience. He obviously contacted everyone he could find who served on one of the three boats he concentrated on, and he read, as well, everything he could find that was written about them. . . . DeRose shines by his interpretation of events as the Japanese must have seen them. . . . His reconstruction of how Wahoo came to her end may well be pretty close to correct. . . . He does the same with Tang.\"-CAPTAIN EDWARD L. BEACH, USN author of Submarine! and Run Silent, Run Deep\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An outstanding addition to the literature of the Silent Service. . . . The depth of research is wonderful. . . . This is fine history . . . that rivals Blair's Silent Victory.\"-PAUL CROZIER, sitemaster, \"Legends of the Deep\" (www.warfish.com) Web site on the USS Wahoo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I knew all of the book's main characters quite well. . . . I am also completely familiar with submarine operations in the Pacific. With that background I couldn't fail to thoroughly enjoy DeRose's book. It is well written and has the right feel.\"-CHESTER W. NIMITZ JR., rear admiral, USN (Ret.) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sail with American submariners into tightly guarded Japanese home waters; undergo the horror of a depth charge attack; experience the thrill of victory with some of the U.S. Navy's ace submarine skippers. All this--and much more--is contained in James F. DeRose's compelling Unrestricted Warfare. No one interested in the naval side of World War II should be without it.\"-NATHAN MILLER author of War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames F. DeRose, a Sloan Fellow, Stanford Business School graduate, and thirty-two-year IBM veteran, is the author of the Wireless Data Handbook, Fourth Edition(Wiley). Roger W. 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Calvert\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I am just one of many who experienced life on a submarine duringWorld War II. Silent Running is a story sincerely told--free of anyrevisionism or cynicism--and I commend Vice Admiral Calvert forsharing this dramatic personal account of that difficult andexciting time.\" --President George Bush \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Hardened old sub vet that I am, I still felt the need for twoweeks R\u0026amp;R after reliving Jim's only too realistic warpatrolling adventures.\" --C. W. Nimitz, Jr., Rear Admiral, USN(Ret.) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I believe it is the best personal account yet written on U.S.submarine operations in the Second World War. [Calvert] writes withlucidity and a rare candor. We get an extraordinary sense of whatit was like, feeling the tensions and emotions, sharing thesuccesses and disappointments, ... This is a true story with tealpeople, always gripping and sometimes tender. It is exciting toread and hard to put down. --J. L. Holloway, Admiral, USN (Ret.)President, Naval Historical Society, Chief of Naval Operations,1974-1978. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I knew Jim Calvert Throughout the war, and in this book he hastold the submarine story in a way that catches the flavor and tangof the real thing. This is the way it really was.\" --Frederick B.Warder, Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.) Legendary W.W. II skipper of theSeawolf.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe boat was eerily quiet and hot as an oven. Shirts came off and men were either in skivvy shirts or bare from the waist up. Every body glistened with sweat--some from the heat and some from just raw fear. Click . . . BANG! Click . . . BANG! Two more [depth charges], still very close. A couple of lightbulbs shattered. . . . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this riveting personal account, an authentic American hero relives the perils and triumphs of eight harrowing patrols aboard one of America's most successful World War II submarines. Courageous deeds and terror-filled moments--as well as the endless hard work of maintaining and operating a combat sub--are vividly recalled in James Calvert's candid portrait. From rigorous training and shakedown cruises off the coast of New England, to tense patrols within shouting distance of Japan's major cities, the progress of the newly commissioned USS Jack parallels Calvert's own growth from callow ensign to charter member of one of the sharpest attack teams in the fleet.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn June 1943, the Jack made its first patrol into Japanese waters, and Calvert began to build a reputation as a crack TDC operator--the crew member who set the torpedo's course based on the approach officer's readings. With Calvert at the TDC and his much admired skipper Tommy Dykers at the periscope, the Jack had five hits and four confirmed kills on its first patrol. The Jack's fame grew. Despite recurring engine trouble, and the notorious failure of American torpedo detonators early in the war, the sub continued to take its toll on enemy shipping. At one point, Calvert hit an enemy vessel at 5,000 yards, roughly three times the maximum distance recommended for accurate torpedo shooting. The ship earned its nickname, Jack the Pack, when a besieged Japanese admiral radioed for help, saying that he was under attack by a wolf pack.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTelling his story with sensitivity and great affection for his shipmates, Calvert combines an intimate knowledge of the nitty-gritty technical details of submarine warfare with the fast-paced action and nail-biting tension of a Tom Clancy novel. He relives long and terrifying hours spent hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, punctuated by the relentless click-BANG of exploding depth charges. He recounts the perilous nighttime cat-and-mouse games that Dykers played with convoy escorts, accompanied on the bridge by a crewman renowned for his night vision--and the disconcerting habit of singing Nearer My God to Thee whenever the situation got tense. And a lively account of a completely unauthorized tour of Tokyo before the official surrender recalls an escapade that nearly cost Calvert his career.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdvance praise for Jim Calvert's Silent Running\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI am just one of many who experienced life on a submarine during World War II. Silent Running is a story sincerely told--free of any revisionism or cynicism--and I commend Vice Admiral Calvert for sharing this dramatic personal account of that difficult and exciting time. --President George Bush\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHardened old sub vet that I am, I still felt the need for two weeks R\u0026amp;R after reliving Jim's only too realistic war patrolling adventures. --C. W. Nimitz, Jr., Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI believe it is the best personal account yet written on U.S. submarine operations in the Second World War. . . . [Calvert] writes with lucidity and a rare candor. We get an extraordinary sense of what it was like, feeling the tensions and emotions, sharing the successes and disappointments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e. . . This is a true story with real people, always gripping and sometimes tender. It is exciting to read and hard to put down. --J. L. Holloway, Admiral, USN (Ret.) President, Naval Historical Society Chief of Naval Operations, 1974-1978\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI knew Jim Calvert throughout the war, and in this book he has told the submarine story in a way that catches the flavor and tang of the real thing. This is the way it really was. --Frederick B. Warder, Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.) Legendary WWII skipper of the Seawolf\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe boat was eerily quiet and hot as an oven. Shirts came off and men were either in skivvy shirts or bare from the waist up. Every body glistened with sweat--some from the heat and some from just raw fear. Click . . . BANG! Click . . . BANG! Two more [depth charges], still very close. A couple of lightbulbs shattered. . . . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this riveting personal account, an authentic American hero relives the perils and triumphs of eight harrowing patrols aboard one of America's most successful World War II submarines. Courageous deeds and terror-filled moments--as well as the endless hard work of maintaining and operating a combat sub--are vividly recalled in James Calvert's candid portrait. From rigorous training and shakedown cruises off the coast of New England, to tense patrols within shouting distance of Japan's major cities, the progress of the newly commissioned USS Jack parallels Calvert's own growth from callow ensign to charter member of one of the sharpest attack teams in the fleet.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn June 1943, the Jack made its first patrol into Japanese waters, and Calvert began to build a reputation as a crack TDC operator--the crew member who set the torpedo's course based on the approach officer's readings. With Calvert at the TDC and his much admired skipper Tommy Dykers at the periscope, the Jack had five hits and four confirmed kills on its first patrol. The Jack's fame grew. Despite recurring engine trouble, and the notorious failure of American torpedo detonators early in the war, the sub continued to take its toll on enemy shipping. At one point, Calvert hit an enemy vessel at 5,000 yards, roughly three times the maximum distance recommended for accurate torpedo shooting. The ship earned its nickname, \"Jack the Pack,\" when a besieged Japanese admiral radioed for help, saying that he was under attack by a \"wolf pack.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTelling his story with sensitivity and great affection for his shipmates, Calvert combines an intimate knowledge of the nitty-gritty technical details of submarine warfare with the fast-paced action and nail-biting tension of a Tom Clancy novel. He relives long and terrifying hours spent hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, punctuated by the relentless click-BANG of exploding depth charges. He recounts the perilous nighttime cat-and-mouse games that Dykers played with convoy escorts, accompanied on the bridge by a crewman renowned for his night vision--and the disconcerting habit of singing \"Nearer My God to Thee\" whenever the situation got tense. And a lively account of a completely unauthorized tour of Tokyo before the official surrender recalls an escapade that nearly cost Calvert his career.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdvance praise for Jim Calvert's Silent Running\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I am just one of many who experienced life on a submarine during World War II. Silent Running is a story sincerely told--free of any revisionism or cynicism--and I commend Vice Admiral Calvert for sharing this dramatic personal account of that difficult and exciting time.\" --President George Bush\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Hardened old sub vet that I am, I still felt the need for two weeks R\u0026amp;R after reliving Jim's only too realistic war patrolling adventures.\" --C. W. Nimitz, Jr., Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I believe it is the best personal account yet written on U.S. submarine operations in the Second World War. . . . [Calvert] writes with lucidity and a rare candor. We get an extraordinary sense of what it was like, feeling the tensions and emotions, sharing the successes and disappointments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e. . . This is a true story with real people, always gripping and sometimes tender. It is exciting to read and hard to put down. --J. L. Holloway, Admiral, USN (Ret.) President, Naval Historical Society Chief of Naval Operations, 1974-1978\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I knew Jim Calvert throughout the war, and in this book he has told the submarine story in a way that catches the flavor and tang of the real thing. This is the way it really was.\" --Frederick B. Warder, Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.) Legendary WWII skipper of the Seawolf\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJAMES F. CALVERT, Vice Admiral, USN (Ret.), was one of the Navy's most decorated officers in World War II. After the war, he became the second skipper to command a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine. In 1959, his ship, the Skate, broke through the ice to surface at the North Pole--the first ship of any kind to reach that part of the earth on the surface. In 1964, he became the second-youngest rear admiral in the Navy's history. Admiral Calvert served as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy and head of the Pacific fleet. 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Miller\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003ePublisher: UMBO BOOKS\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eEdition: First Edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eReading Age: 5 to 14 years\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n  \u003ch2\u003eFrequently Asked Questions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eWho is this Navy children’s book for?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThis book is written for military kids, Navy families, and children with a Sailor mom who may be preparing for deployment, underways, duty days, or homecoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eCan this book help explain deployment?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eYes. The story uses child friendly language and comforting illustrations to help children understand deployment, separation, reunion, and the emotions that come with Navy family life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eDoes the book include keepsake features?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eYes. This hardcover edition includes a photo slot and space for a personal note, making it a meaningful family keepsake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eKey features include:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e32-page, hardcover edition with stunning, vibrant illustrations that keep colors bright through repeated readings\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAccessible for children ages 4–8, with a reading approach that suits broader ages up to 14\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePositive representation of a strong Navy mom, offering relatable role models for young readers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEducational themes woven subtly into the story, fostering pride and understanding about service, sacrifice, and family resilience\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInteractive reading moments and discussion starters to deepen engagement during shared reading\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDurable production designed to withstand eager little hands while maintaining its vivid visuals\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIdeal gift for Navy families, military-related events, birthdays, and holidays\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePublication details: UMBO BOOKS, July 28, 2024; Author: Matthew E. Miller; ISBN 979-8991120432\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether it’s a cozy bedtime routine, a talk before a deployment, or a heartfelt homecoming celebration, My Mommy, My Sailor opens a window to the emotional landscape of military families. 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