Michael Sturma: 4 books
Surface and Destroy
The Submarine Gun War in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
World War II submariners rarely experienced anything as exhilarating or horrifying as the surface gun attack. Between the ocean floor and the rolling whitecaps above, submarines patrolled a dark abyss in a fusion of silence, shadows, and steel, firing around eleven thousand torpedoes, sinking Japanese...
The USS Flier
Death and Survival on a World War II Submarine
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
The fate of the USS Flier is one of the most astonishing stories of the Second World War. On August 13, 1944, the submarine struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Sulu Sea in less than one minute, leaving only fourteen of its crew of eighty-six hands alive. After enduring eighteen hours in the...
Death at a Distance
The Loss of the Legendary USS Harder
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Only seven U.S. submariners earned the Medal of Honor in World War II. Sam Dealey, the USS Harder's commander, was one of them. His honor was awarded posthumously after the entire crew was lost off Bataan during a depth-charge attack in August 1944 by a Japanese convoy. The Harder's fighting spirit is...
Fremantle's Submarines
How Allied Submariners and Western Australians Helped Win the War in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
From unpromising beginnings in March 1942, the submarine base at Fremantle became a vital part of the Allied offensive against Japan. Pushed back from the Philippines and the Netherlands East Indies, American submariners, accompanied by small numbers of Dutch, retreated to Fremantle on the remote west...