Summary of Edward Monroe-Jones & Michael Green's The Silent Service in World War II

By IRB Media

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#1 I went to Submarine School, New London, where I underwent physical and psychological tests to determine my aptitude for submarines. I was certain I had failed. The tests were far above the average for the Navy.

#2 The submarine escape-training tank was similar to the rescue bell. It could rescue eight people at a time. The equipment used in the tank was similar to the bell.

#3 The fleet-type submarine is a 312 foot, welded, double hull vessel. It is sixteen feet wide in the middle. The pressure hull is inside the outer hull. Between the two hulls are the water and fuel tanks. There are eight compartments inside the pressure hull and one, the conning tower, attached above the control room.

#4 I was eventually qualified to serve on a submarine, and I enjoyed the experience. I was excited to go to sea on a real submarine, the USS Sargo.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822539532

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I went to Submarine School, New London, where I underwent physical and psychological tests to determine my aptitude for submarines. I was certain I had failed. The tests were far above the average for the Navy.

#2

The submarine escape-training tank was similar to the rescue bell. It could rescue eight people at a time. The equipment used in the tank was similar to the bell.

#3

The fleet-type submarine is a 312 foot, welded, double hull vessel. It is sixteen feet wide in the middle. The pressure hull is inside the outer hull. Between the two hulls are the water and fuel tanks. There are eight compartments inside the pressure hull and one, the conning tower, attached above the control room.

#4

I was eventually qualified to serve on a submarine, and I enjoyed the experience. I was excited to go to sea on a real submarine, the USS Sargo.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The Japanese attack on the Cavite Naval Base in Philippines sank Sea Lion and badly damaged Sea Dragon, but Killin rode her south to Perth, Australia.

#2

We were sent on our first offensive patrol run off the coast of French Indochina. We were located outside Cam Ranh Bay, a big Japanese naval base. We made an approach on a heavy Japanese cruiser, and fired four torpedoes as the cruiser was going into their base. None of them hit the target.

Insights from Chapter 3

#1

I had been promised that submarine duty would mean exotic, Oriental dancing girls, but I found only sweaty men in a smelly submarine. I was sent on a forty-day practice war patrol to the west.

#2

On December 5, 1941, I entered Manila Bay and moored to buoy number three. The following night, I took a taxi back to the boat. As I boarded Sargo, I was confronted by the topside watch, who told me that Pearl Harbor had been bombed by the Japanese. I prepared Sargo for war.

Insights from Chapter 4

#1

I was on board the USS S-36 when it was sent to the Philippines in April 1940. The boat sank a Japanese freighter, then, with equipment breaking down on a daily basis, it finally met its end on a reef.

#2

The crew of S-36 was sent to Cape Bolinao, just north of Lingayen Gulf, to prepare for war with Japan. They received the news that hostilities had begun, and they governed themselves accordingly.

#3

The submarine suffered a series of mechanical failures, and