Final Harbor

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All the characters in this novel are fictional. There was no intent to limn any person, living or dead. Those readers who served in submarines in the Pacific in World War II will notice a certain chronological compression of some events, a device the author felt necessary for the purposes of the story.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Clay Blair, Jr., whose monumental work on the role of the United States Submarine Navy in World War II entitled Silent Victory (published by J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1975) served to refresh my memory.

This book is dedicated with profound respect to the memory of the 3,508 officers and enlisted men who died in the sinkings of 52 United States Navy submarines in World War II, some of whom I had the pleasure of serving with before their deaths.

It is dedicated also to those submariners who lived through the bitter and dangerous years of the submarine war against the Empire of Japan — in particular to Lieut. Comdr. Joseph J. Sibley, USNR, who was the personification of the ideal submariner, in war or peace.

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