Submarine Attack #44

Captain Josh Wheeler commands the USS Margale, America's newest and fastest atomic submarine—but Communist agents have planted a hidden electronic emitter on her hull in the Groton shipyard, allowing an enemy sub to track her every move through the deep. As the Margale races through the Atlantic on trials, both her own crew and a mysterious hunter-killer sub pick up the telltale signal, setting the stage for a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in the silent depths.

A submarine skipper risks everything to sink a Japanese carrier in Tokyo Harbor, but gets stranded on the surface when his executive officer, Lt. Abe Karrel, must dive to save the boat—leaving the commanding officer to be captured by enemy forces. Now imprisoned and facing execution, the skipper can only hope that his loyal crew will find a way to reach him before it's too late. Karrel and a volunteer shore party devise a desperate plan involving sabotage and diversion to infiltrate the Japanese naval prison and bring their captain home.

A wounded sailor from a sinking submarine finds himself stranded in shark-infested waters when a damaged enemy plane crashes nearby—and Beckett must decide whether the downed pilot represents salvation or a deadly trap. With his submarine crew unable to risk returning for him, this castaway faces a desperate race against time and nature in the Pacific. Will rescue arrive before the sharks, or does the crashed plane hold secrets that could change everything?

A submarine crew hunting the Nazi vessel that sank their sister ship encounters a suspicious tramp freighter off the coast—one that shouldn't be capable of traveling as fast or far as it has. When the disguised enemy Q-boat reveals itself with gunfire, the sub's crew must fight for survival in a desperate underwater battle where split-second decisions could mean the difference between victory and joining their fallen comrades at the bottom of the sea.

A badly damaged B-24 Liberator crashes into the South Pacific, pursued by Japanese fighters, and the crew must call for help as an enemy destroyer closes in. Just when rescue seems impossible, an American submarine surfaces nearby to pull the airmen from the water before enemy aircraft can respond. This quietly crucial rescue operation represents one of the unpublicized heroic missions submarines undertook during the Second World War in the Pacific theater.