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Beschreibung
Recounts the high-risk, covert operations of a nuclear attack submarine during the zenith of the Cold War
Recounts the high-risk, covert operations of a nuclear attack submarine during the zenith of the Cold War
Über den Autor
Alfred Scott McLaren, PhD and retired US Navy Captain, is recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal and two Legions of Merit, president emeritus of the Explorers Club, former senior pilot of the SAS Super Aviator submersible, and president emeritus of the American Polar Society. He is author of Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651) and Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War Attack Submarines.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Preface

Prologue: Change of Command

Part I. 1969

Chapter 1. Prospective Commanding Officers School, Washington, DC

Chapter 2. Prospective Commanding Officer, USS Queenfish

Chapter 3. Commanding Officer, USS Queenfish

Chapter 4. The Pacific Northwest

Part II. 1970

Chapter 5. First Cold War Mission

Chapter 6. Initial Patrol Area

Chapter 7. A Golf II-Class SSB

Chapter 8. An Echo II SSGN and Other Submarines Encountered

Chapter 9. Pearl Harbor to the Pacific Northwest

Chapter 10. En Route to the Arctic Ocean

Chapter 11. To the North Pole

Chapter 12. Toward the Siberian Continental Shelf

Chapter 13. Severnaya Zemlya and the Laptev Sea

Chapter 14. Across the Laptev Sea

Chapter 15. North of the New Siberian Islands

Chapter 16. The Malevolent East Siberian Sea

Chapter 17. The Chukchi Sea

Chapter 18. Nome and the Voyage Home

Chapter 19. Pearl Harbor

Part III. 1971

Chapter 20. Local Operations

Chapter 21. A Cold War Mission and Preparations for WestPac

Chapter 22. WestPac Deployment

Chapter 23. The Big Event

Chapter 24. Off Again!

Chapter 25. Yokosuka, Japan

Chapter 26. Our Third Cold War Mission

Chapter 27. Zaliv Petra Velikogo

Chapter 28. Yokosuka Again

Chapter 29. Yankee Station, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Guam, and Home

Part IV. The Hard Years, 1972 and 1973

Chapter 30. Final Months in Command

Chapter 31. The Operational Reactor Safeguards Examination

Chapter 32. Genesis

Chapter 33. Final Deployment to WestPac

Chapter 34. Last Cold War Mission

Chapter 35. Yokosuka and Hong Kong

Chapter 36. Services to Seventh Fleet and Vietnam

Chapter 37. Guam and Return to Pearl Harbor

Epilogue

Notes

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780817362287
ISBN-10: 0817362282
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McLaren, Alfred Scott
Hersteller: University of Alabama Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 226 x 152 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Alfred Scott McLaren
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.06.2025
Gewicht: 0,739 kg
Artikel-ID: 133612065