Battle surface! : Lawson P. "Red" Ramage and the war patrols of the USS Parche

Summary: Cmdr. Lawson Paterson Red Ramage was among an elite group of just seven U.S. submariners who were awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II and the first not to die in the course of his heroic exploits. He was honored for his actions in the Pacific on the night of 31 July 1944 when he kept his submarine, USS Parche, on the surface and defiantly charged into the midst of a large Japanese convoy. Ramage's close-in, furious surface rampage became the talk of the submarine force, both in terms of its boldness and its destruction of the enemy shipping. Remarkably, Parche 's crew had managed t.

Record details

ISBN: 9781283139663
ISBN: 1283139669
ISBN: 161251037X
ISBN: 9781612510378
ISBN: 1591145325
ISBN: 9781591145325
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 342 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Publisher: Annapolis, MD : Naval Institute Press, ©2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1. Red Ramage's Return; Chpater 2. The Parche Crew; Chapter 3. First Action; Chapter 4. Convoy Killers; Chapter 5. Parks' Pirates; Chapter 6. "A Perfect Dream"; Chapter 7. Red's Rampage: "I Got Mad"; Chapter 8. "The Good Lord Had Been With Us"; Chapter 9. "A Calculated Risk"; Chapter 10. "The Bendix Log Blew Up"; Chapter 11. Tragedy at Sea; Chapter 12. "That Ship Was Gone"; Chapter 13. Lifeguard League; Chapter 14. "One Hell of a Beating"; Chapter 15. Epilogue; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.