Sub Tales 5 is the fifth and final volume of the Sub Tales collection of US submarine history books by Charles and Frank Hood. It caps off the series with another generous serving of original stories and veteran insights covering the gamut of submarine operations..
Submarine Stories you have never heard. All original content of men, events, unknown places, and untold stories that add to the illustrious history of the US Submarine Force. Replete with many pictures, diagrams that make the stories come alive. Even a picture of Bozo, the dog, who rode a sub while underway
Selected among the 100 All-Time Best Books about Submarines by The Book Authority, Poopie Suits and Cowboy Boots is also listed in Amazon’s top 100 books about the Cold War.
Audio version of the best selling Poopie Suits and Cowboy Boots book. Narrated by a Navy veteran who rode on six submarines. Realism, nuance, color, and tension are all there in this engaging version.
Detailed recollections and stories of two dozen submarine veterans. This stunning volume, replete with vintage photos, diagrams, and documents, nearly bursts at the seams with story after engaging story as told by the men who lived them!
Brilliant addition to the Sub Tales trilogy. Features many little-known and often jaw-dropping true stories highlighting the bravery and resourcefulness of the Silent Service over several generations.
Sub Tales, the first title in a trilogy, was largely developed from the many tips about unknown US submarine stories shared with us by submarine veterans.
Following the great success of the first volume in this series, many more submarine veterans of the Cold War era asked to have their stories similarly told in their own words, to preserve their unique and largely unknown experiences for future generations.
This title draws the reader into the minds of veteran submariners who penned their individual stories from service aboard both diesel and nuclear boats spanning multiple generations. A truly authentic inside look at the Silent Service.
This brand-new collection of 36 richly illustrated stories, written in the same style as Sub Tales, takes the reader on a set of fascinating adventures and explains many of the traditions and lore of the US Submarine Force.
Author Biographies
Charles Hood
Frank Hood
Book Highlights
Stories of Life Aboard a Submarine
Early Days of the Silent Service
Ordeals, Pioneers, and Improvisers
Why did they volunteer?
What was their day like?
What Submariners Say About Their Service?
Why You Might Like These Books
Like Action? See these stories:
• Be there when the Corporal lands a Navy helicopter with engine failure on its narrow deck, while bobbing out at sea. The copter and the crew were in peril of being lost at sea. Tense real-life moments from the men who were there. See picture below in Gallery.
• Ride the Chopper as it survives extreme angles up and down in quick order. Men being thrown about like rag dolls.
• Gasp as the Stickleback loses power, surfaces, and then gets rammed by a Destroyer Escort while on exercises.
Like Drama?:
• Be there as men interview with the irascible Vice Admiral Hyman G Rickover and how he treated everyone with disrespect and disdain, on purpose.
• Read about 3 emergency appendectomies aboard US Submarines on patrol during WWII – how were these done without proper implements?
• Read about how men survived the sinkings of their boats.
• Read about how a submarine lost its screw (propellar) at 400 feet and survived.
If you like stories of men dealing with unexpected situations and how they reacted, like George Rocek, who survived not only the sinking of his own submarine, but the Japanese carrier he was put on after his rescue at sea.
If you like all of these – and more…
You Are Sure to enjoy the Poopie Suits series of True Sub Tales. 6 books with 1 more on the way.
Like History?:
• The loss of the F-4, the first US submarine lost at sea.
• Adm Nimitz, a submariner, who ran the war in the Pacific, his background and how he was chosen to be CINCPAC, Commander in Chief, Pacific Theatre.
• The story of the Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear powered submarine and an historical message that almost wasn’t.
• Stories of 4 Presidents who rode submarines, including a German U- Boat.
• Story of the first, and only, successful rescue of men aboard a downed submarine, read about the USS Squalus (SS 192)
• Stories of how submarines were launched and sponsored.
• Stories of famous submarine skippers of WWII.
Reviews on Amazon & Facebook
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The Silent Service Remembers – Vol 2
Poopie Suits & Cowboy Boots
Sub Tales – Stories That Seldom Surface
Reviews by Civilians & Veterans
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Sub Tales – Stories That Seldom Surface
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