Submarine Attack #41
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe main story, "Mission in Murmansk," follows America's first 2-man atomic submarine on a covert operation where a depth charge explosion in murky waters creates confusion among intelligence experts about the vessel's status. The tiny sub, traveling at ninety knots, is detected roaring down the main channel toward a foreign port, prompting diplomatic protests in Washington; however, the submarine crew successfully completes their mission and returns home, having confused enemy radio transmissions about their whereabouts. The issue also includes a historical article titled "Don't Sink the Navy," which chronicles the U.S. Navy's role from the nation's founding through World War II, including detailed accounts of naval mining operations and the attack on Pearl Harbor.
An atomic-powered micro-submarine slips into the Soviet port of Murmansk on a covert intelligence mission, but when Lt. Abelard Willey and Electronics Technician Stephen Oliver Cox are spotted gathering evidence about Cuban cargo ships, they must use every trick their experimental vessel has to escape a gauntlet of patrol boats and depth charges. Racing through treacherous harbor waters at breakneck speed, the tiny sub becomes a ghost that Moscow's defenses can't track—or even believe exists.
A cruiser damaged in a surprise Japanese attack in the Aleutian fog receives secret orders to feign sinking, becoming a phantom warship that the enemy believes destroyed. Over eleven weeks, the Captain uses their assumed-lost status to prowl enemy waters, striking Japanese convoys and destroyers while remaining undetected—until their ammunition runs low and it's time to break cover. It's a tense game of naval cat-and-mouse where staying hidden becomes both the crew's greatest advantage and their most fragile shield.
When the Murmansk Run becomes a bloodbath for Allied convoys, Lt. Comdr. Rufus Donner and the crew of the U.S.S. Skipray—a new fleet submarine fresh from shakedown—are sent north to hunt down the Nazi surface raiders and U-boats decimating the supply route to Russia. As the submarine escorts a fourteen-knot convoy through treacherous waters patrolled by Luftwaffe bombers and German warships, Donner must navigate enemy wolf packs, aerial attacks, and the frozen chaos of the Arctic to find and engage the heavily-armed raiders that outgun the convoy's defenders. It's a mission with razor-thin odds and no margin for error in one of the war's deadliest stretches of ocean.
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Reprinted in Fightin' Navy #128 (1983)
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