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Summary:

Following the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States entered World War II in December 1941 weakened and outnumbered. With the Pacific battleship fleet decimated by the Pearl Harbor attack, it was up to the feisty and heroic sailors of the US Submarine Force to halt the sweeping Japanese invasion across the Pacific.

Table of Contents:

• Part One: Dark Days
• Wave after wave: Sunday, December 7, 1941
• Execute unrestricted submarine warfare
• The Philippines: Monday, December 8, 1941
• Meet the Seawolf
• Seawolf's narrow escape
• The overwhelming forces of the unknown
• Fearless Freddie's daring foray
• Christmas retreat
• Part Two: Brave Men and Terrible Torpedoes
• The bravest stand
• Unlikely heroines: Lucy Wilson and Canopus
• Angels on board
• Sink 'em all!
• Ned Beach: reluctant submariner
• Trigger turns it around
• Surrounded!
• A long, hard year for Seawolf
• Wahoo: an unpromising start
• Part Three: Here Comes the Wahoo

• Mush the magnificent
• Off the map: the unknown waters of Wewak
• The approach
• Down the throat
• A mighty roar
• Wahoo on the attack
• "Good hunting"
• Part Four: The Fightingest
• Dick O'Kane's ice-cream machine
• Stowaways
• Tang makes her mark
• The sea was all ours
• The last, terrible torpedo
• Wolf pack: avenging the Wahoo
• Peace be now restored: 1945.

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Author/Creator:

Hopkinson, Deborah , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Dive!: World War II stories of sailors & submarines in the Pacific [by Hopkinson, D.]

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations — Submarine — Juvenile literature

World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, American — Juvenile literature

World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Pacific Ocean — Juvenile literature

Submarine warfare — United States — Juvenile literature

World War (1939-1945)

1939-1945

Military operations, Naval — American

Military campaigns

Submarine warfare

Sea control

United States

Pacific Ocean

Genres:

Juvenile works

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Audience:

Preteens
Children
Ages: 10-13.
Grades: 5-8.
1090L (source: Lexile)

Physical Description:

367 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 22 cm

Call Numbers:

J940.54 H797di

ISBNs:

9780545425582

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2015040229

OCLC Numbers:

927619098

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: jlg18840888