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Reddit mentions of Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II
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We found 8 Reddit mentions of Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II. Here are the top ones.
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His book, Thunder Below! is apparently a great read for submariners.
This is a classic, I've read this over 5x last year while flying around for work.
I also highly recommend thunder below!, I would pay a lot for a premium USS Barb...
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U-boat.net for a very good online source on German submarines in both World Wars, more encyclopedic than a book, however.
Wolfpack and Battle of the Atlantic are two very readable and good books for a general overview, but there are certainly more academic or exhaustive books as well.
The U-boat War is an oldie but a goodie, written by the same person who wrote das Boot, the fictional counterpart.
On the American side, several submariners wrote very good memoirs. Thunder Below by Eugene Fluckey gives a great overview of both life at sea in an American submarine in the Pacific, but also of operational details, how the patrols worked, etc.
Thunder Below, available on Amazon here.
A beautiful photo for a fantastically crewed submarine.
For those of you that don't know her story, Thunder Below! was written by her skipper Eugene B. Fluckey and tells the tale of those 8 Battle Stars among other things.
There is a really good book "Thunder Below!" written by Admiral Eugene B. Fluckey who was the captain of that boat during ww2. He toured the boat once, which was cool.
Well then I strongly recommend going straight to the source and reading Thunder Below!. Written by Fluckey himself, this book is literally too insane to be made into a movie, because no one would believe it.
This is probably the best submarine story ever written. And there's cake.
Werner shall we say embellished a few details in Iron Coffins. Still a great read, though. If you liked that one, try out Steel Boats, Iron Hearts, written by a crewman on U-505, which now resides in a museum in Chicago. Another great sub story was Thunder Below, which I actually thought was so great they could make it into a movie.