Submarine Attack #49

After 83 days at sea commanding the U.S.S. Sailway, Lt. Comdr. Maldon D. Robbins finds himself torn between waging war against the Japanese and battling the growing suspicion that his own crew—men he's led through multiple patrols—are turning against him. As the patrol stretches longer than expected and the stress mounts, Robbins becomes convinced his officers are plotting mutiny, and his judgment begins to crack under the weight of command, command, exhaustion, and paranoia. With Japanese submarines and enemy forces closing in, Robbins must confront whether his real enemies are waiting outside the hull or have already infiltrated his boat.

U.S.S. Swapper and U-434 both run aground in a fog-shrouded Greenland fjord, each hunting the same German supply ship—but Captain Cutshaw realizes he's stumbled onto a far more valuable prize. When the American crew plants charges on the enemy U-boat and demands surrender, the captain must decide whether to destroy the vessel or try something far riskier: capturing her intact.

When a German submarine captain treacherously torpedoes the U.S.S. Blackfin during a surrender, Captain James H. Dilman and his crew find themselves grounded in shallow water off Cape Pina with nowhere to flee—so Dilman makes a desperate gamble to turn their trap into a hunting ground, hoping the Nazi U-boats will return. As the crew repairs their vessel and stakes out the shallows, enemy patrols begin closing in, setting the stage for a reckoning neither side could have predicted.

When a frightened crewman named Kozaleski breaks under the pressure of a deep-sea patrol in 1944, his panic threatens to compromise Captain Turner Kroll's submarine and everyone aboard during a tense encounter with Japanese destroyers. As fear spreads like poison through the boat, Kroll must rally his crew and decide whether to run silent or fight back against the hunters stalking them from above. A story about courage—and how one man's return to duty can restore hope to an entire vessel.

Navy frogmen brave the Pacific waters before the Marines land, searching out treacherous coral reefs that could devastate incoming landing craft. The team works underwater to blast channels through the hidden obstacles, then stands ready to support the invasion when D-Day arrives. It's a tense look at the unseen heroes who prepared the way for battle.