Submarine Attack #24

When a German U-boat torpedoes his ship off the Jersey coast in 1942, a merchant captain sees an opportunity: he volunteers for active duty and pitches a daring plan to the Navy—outfit an ordinary freighter with lumber cargo and K-guns to become an unsinkable trap for Nazi submarines. Crewed by men willing to be hit and still fight back, the vessel sinks U-boat after U-boat, though not without taking damage that would normally send any ship to the bottom.

Captain Jerry Morse survives the sinking of his submarine, the Whiplash, at the hands of the feared Nazi U-boat U84—commanded by Captain Erich Von Wolfgang—and vows to hunt down the "Sea Tiger" for revenge. Cleared for duty despite his traumatic ordeal, Morse takes command of a new sub, the Dogfish, and begins a relentless pursuit of his nemesis, though his obsession and reckless tactics begin to unsettle his crew. As tension mounts beneath the waves, Morse finally picks up the signal of what he believes to be the U84, setting the stage for a deadly underwater confrontation.

A U.S. submarine crew hunts down the Japanese sub that sank their sister ship with a treacherous trick three weeks earlier, pursuing their quarry through brutal North Pacific storms and closing in for the kill. When the enemy finally surfaces and signals surrender, the captain faces an agonizing choice: trust their signal and risk being torpedoed, or finish what they came to do. This is a war story where duty and conscience collide with no easy answer.

A Norwegian sailor who escaped Nazi occupation finds himself back in his homeland as a British naval officer aboard the USS Pickerel, tasked with a desperate wartime rescue mission up a heavily guarded fjord. When Lieutenant Peter Klagg leads a small party ashore to extract three vital targets from the German-held village of Kavik, a fierce firefight erupts that forces the submarine to surface and fight its way back to open water. With Nazi patrols closing in and enemy fire raking the vessel, the crew races to reach deep water before daylight exposes them to air attack.