Summary of Peter Sasgen's Hellcats

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#1 Sarah Simms Edge was expecting another child in August 1945, and was waiting anxiously for a letter from her husband, U. S. Navy commander Lawrence Lott Edge. She was sure that the war would soon be over, and that her husband would be coming home soon.

#2 The letters continued to arrive from Guam before his seventh war patrol, and after his return in late May. Something was wrong, however, when his letters suddenly stopped arriving.

#3 The telegram that Sarah received in April 1942 informing her that her husband was missing in action was a nightmare for her. She had always feared that he would be killed in the war.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822547605

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Sarah Simms Edge was expecting another child in August 1945, and was waiting anxiously for a letter from her husband, U. S. Navy commander Lawrence Lott Edge. She was sure that the war would soon be over, and that her husband would be coming home soon.

#2

The letters continued to arrive from Guam before his seventh war patrol, and after his return in late May. Something was wrong, however, when his letters suddenly stopped arriving.

#3

The telegram that Sarah received in April 1942 informing her that her husband was missing in action was a nightmare for her. She had always feared that he would be killed in the war.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Charles A. Lockwood, a submarine officer, was deeply affected by the deaths of the more than 3,500 officers and enlisted men serving in the fifty-two subs lost during the war. He vowed that the Japanese would pay a heavy price for every submariner killed.

#2

Lockwood had a premonition that Japan would one day pose a serious threat to the United States, and in due time, war between the two countries broke out.

#3

Lockwood had become one of the Navy’s top experts on submarines and submarine tactics. He had fought hard to change the narrow and hidebound thinking of senior officers who resisted many of the improvements the submarine force needed to undergo.

#4

On March 5, 1942, Lockwood was promoted to rear admiral and ordered to Fremantle, Australia, to relieve Captain John Wilkes, commander of the ragtag SubsAsiatic Force of the Asiatic Fleet. Lockwood was ecstatic. This was what he had been craving all along: action in subs against America’s main