Submarine Attack #53

The Chief of the U.S.S. Arrowfish fights to hold his crew together as fear spreads like a plague during a brutal patrol off the Japanese coast. After surviving a harrowing depth-charge attack and a lucky bombing run that saves them, the men are too terrified to function—and when a downed American B-29 crew calls for rescue in hostile waters, the submarine faces a choice that tests whether fear or duty will win. With the crew barely holding on and Japanese forces closing in, the Skipper and Chief must find a way to break the grip of terror before it destroys them all.

A submarine gun crew detached from the Seventh Fleet intercepts a communist supply ship off Vietnam, but the real fight begins when the Viet Cong capture allied prisoners near the Dom Luc River—prompting Skipper Victor Trimm and a twenty-man rescue team to navigate upriver under fire to extract the hostages. When Buckeye, the gunner, discovers his own brother among the captured men, the mission becomes personal, and the team must fight their way out against overwhelming odds with help from Navy air support.

When a U.S. nuclear submarine becomes ensnared in a Soviet net during an operational patrol, Commander R.G. Forbes and Lt. Karnek must devise a clever plan to escape before the enemy can exploit their vulnerability. With enemy frogmen guarding the hatches and listening devices monitoring every word, the American crew launches an ingenious counteroffensive using infrared equipment and an underwater torch. This tense underwater standoff becomes a battle of wits, where one captain's quick thinking turns the tables on an adversary with nowhere to go.

Aboard a nuclear-powered Polaris submarine, intensely trained officers and crew understand the weight of their mission—delivering nuclear firepower across the world's oceans unseen. When disaster strikes and a missile launches by accident, bound for a city in Africa, the crew's expertise and specialized equipment become humanity's last line of defense against catastrophe. This 1965 war story explores the hidden vigilance that keeps global tensions in check.