War at Sea #41

During a Caribbean naval exercise, Lt. Tony Dura and his destroyer detect a submarine in the area—but all friendly subs are accounted for. When a resourceful officer plays a confiscated rock 'n' roll record over the water to try to provoke a response, the crew realizes something critical that changes everything about the target below them. In the chaos of the attack that follows, a keen observation reveals a detail that haunts Dura long after the engagement ends.

Tensions run high when a U.S. carrier group anchored in the Mediterranean faces a two-pronged Communist threat: political agitators ashore deliberately provoke the sailors into fights to turn local opinion against the American presence, while enemy jets simultaneously close in on the fleet from across the Adriatic. S2C Jim Tarrant finds himself caught between personal connections to the locals and the growing crisis that demands every hand back aboard ship. As political schemes and military danger converge, the Navy must navigate both the diplomatic minefield and the real threat in the skies.

A naval task force drops an atomic bomb on a freighter in the Pacific, and when radiation levels finally clear 36 hours later, an Admiral himself leads a boarding party to investigate the damaged ship. What the Navy discovers in the hulk's wreckage offers proof that could change everything about how sailors face the prospect of atomic warfare.

When a Japanese bomb cripples a U.S. destroyer, Lt. Garr Henry and a handful of survivors find themselves adrift in a lifeboat with dwindling supplies and no rescue in sight—stranded in waters too dangerous for their own ships to venture. After eleven grueling days fighting thirst and desperation, their slim chance at survival takes an unexpected turn when a Japanese submarine surfaces nearby, forcing Henry to make a desperate gamble. This wartime survival tale captures the ingenuity and nerve of ordinary sailors pushed to their limits.