| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0671684663 |
| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER |
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| International Standard Serial Number |
9780671684662 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
940.5451 Sch |
| Item number |
15 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
940.5451 Sch |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Schratz, Paul R. |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Submarine commander |
| Remainder of title |
a story of World War II and Korea |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Paul R. Schratz |
| 260 00 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Pocket Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1990 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
397 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
A fascinating personal memoir of underwater combat in World War II, told by a man who played a major role in those dangerous operations. Frank and beautifully written, Submarine Commander's breezy style and irrepressible humor place it in a class by itself. This book will be of lasting value as a submarine history by an expert and as an enduring military and political analysis. In early 1943 the submarine USS Scorpion, with Paul R. Schratz as torpedo officer, slipped into the shallow waters east of Tokyo, laid a minefield, and made successful torpedo attacks on merchant shipping. Schratz participated in many more patrols in heavily mined Japanese waters as executive officer of the Sterlet and the Atule. At war's end he participated in the Japanese surrender, aided the release of American POWs, and had a key role in the disarming of enemy suicide submarines. He then took command of the revolutionary new Japanese submarine I-203 and returned it to Pearl Harbor. But this was far from the end of Schratz's submarine career. In 1949 he commissioned the ultramodern USS Pickerel, the most deadly submarine then afloat, and set a world's record in a 21-day, 5,200-mile submerged passage from Hong Kong to Honolulu. With the outbreak of the Korean War, the Pickerel was immediately sent to Korea to participate in secret intelligence operations only recently declassified and never before revealed in print. Schratz's broad military experience makes this a far from ordinary memoir. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Information code or alphabet |
64507 |
| 600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Schratz, Paul R. |
| Dates associated with a name |
1915-1993 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Source of heading or term |
World War |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Personal narratives, American |
| Chronological subdivision |
1939-1945 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Source of heading or term |
Korean War |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Personal narratives, American |
| Chronological subdivision |
1950-1953 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Source of heading or term |
World War |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Naval operations Submarine |
| Chronological subdivision |
1939-1945 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Source of heading or term |
Korean War |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Naval operations Submarine |
| Chronological subdivision |
1950-1953 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Source of heading or term |
Military operations, Naval Submarine. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Koha item type |
900 - 999 |