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"AN INTIMATE LOOK AT THE WAY A WAR WAS WON."-Tom Clancy
"A SUPERB PORTRAIT OF LIFE ON A WORLD WAR llf LEETg BOAT, THE BEST THAT WE ARE LIKELY TO GET ONE^ IS STRUCK, IF NOT AWED, BY GALANTIN'S PERSONALW COURAGE "-Clay Blair, author of Slten^Service jP"
¦ On August 12,1943,32-year-old Pete Galantin took iHr: command of thi U.S.S. Halibut at Midway Island. Armed with torpedos and a 50 caliber deck gun, Halibut roamed ^^ from Pearl Harbor to Saipan, the Philippines and the coast of Japan, sinking 13 enemy vessels—including a 10,000 ton í heavy cruiser—until, on November 14,1944, the longest,:,-most ferocious attack ever survived by a U.S. submarine ^^^ knocked Halibut out of comfnission.^^^^^^:^
It was a career that earned both ship and crew the Navy Unit , Commendation. Now pigboat skipper Pete Galantin tells ' Halibut's remarkable story. Here are the men who lived ar^ fought from cramped, close quarters, the excitement and ^ .: drama of on-target hits, and the frustration and... Tovább

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"AN INTIMATE LOOK AT THE WAY A WAR WAS WON."-Tom Clancy
"A SUPERB PORTRAIT OF LIFE ON A WORLD WAR llf LEETg BOAT, THE BEST THAT WE ARE LIKELY TO GET ONE^ IS STRUCK, IF NOT AWED, BY GALANTIN'S PERSONALW COURAGE "-Clay Blair, author of Slten^Service jP"
¦ On August 12,1943,32-year-old Pete Galantin took iHr: command of thi U.S.S. Halibut at Midway Island. Armed with torpedos and a 50 caliber deck gun, Halibut roamed ^^ from Pearl Harbor to Saipan, the Philippines and the coast of Japan, sinking 13 enemy vessels—including a 10,000 ton í heavy cruiser—until, on November 14,1944, the longest,:,-most ferocious attack ever survived by a U.S. submarine ^^^ knocked Halibut out of comfnission.^^^^^^:^
It was a career that earned both ship and crew the Navy Unit , Commendation. Now pigboat skipper Pete Galantin tells ' Halibut's remarkable story. Here are the men who lived ar^ fought from cramped, close quarters, the excitement and ^ .: drama of on-target hits, and the frustration and peril of alH; M
too frequent near-misses caused by malfunctioning torpedos. And here is the final, legendary battle near Luzon Strait. After sinking two enemy vessels. Halibut took depth : charges that drove her under to 420 feet, wrecked her conning tower, and bent her hull inward—and survived.- ^
"few a:::: ts of cdivibatoperatígng o.x
seí^ör in the air li m will suri ass th é portrayal of sheiiir terror, l-hi stratic':, danger and bralfery in mejilitexl '
—The San Diego Unign^' , , ^^^^ ^| Vissza