Clear The Bridge! The War Patrols Of The U.S.S. Tang by O'Kane, Richard H - 1979

Rand McNally. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Chicago, IL: Rand McNally and Company, 1977. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. American First. First Printing stated on verso of title page; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white photographs and maps; map of patrol routes on both sets of end papers.

Rand McNally, 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

Osprey Publishing. Near Fine. 2010. Reprint. Paperback. 0528810588 . Combat Aircraft; 183.9 X 6.1 X 9.91 millimeters; 96 pages .

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1979. 480pp, index, appendices, glossary, bw ills, maps, endpaper maps. Or green cloth in jacket. Minor wear to bottom edge of boards. Minor bug stain on bottom edge. The true story of America's most daring submarine, by her captain.. Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Rand Mc Nally & Company ISBN# 0-528-81058-8 Third Printing, vg/vg. Dj has very light rubbing and bending on edges. There is some age yellowing on upper edge. Book is rubbed and lightly worn on lower edge with bending on both spine edges. This is the true story of America's most daring World War II submarine, by her captain.. Hardcover.

Rand McNally & Company, 1977. Very good hardcover with very good dust jacket.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Chicago, IL, USA: Rand McNally & Company, 1977. First U.S. Edition 2nd Printing. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 480pp w appendices, glossary and index. Indexed charts and maps. Historical bw photographs. Cartographic endpapers. Foxing on textblock edges. Green cloth w gold lettering on cover and spine. Bumping to head and tail, no edgewear. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ is clean, showing very light handling, preserved in archival cover. Octavo.

Novato, CA: Rand McNally & Company, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. good, good. 24 cm, 480, illus., maps, endpaper maps, appendices, glossary, index, some creasing & small tear to top DJ edge, some edge soiling. Tang's captain tells the story of the short but fabulous career of this U.S. submarine against Japanese ships in the Pacific Ocean. Launched in August 1943, the U.S.S. Tang was sunk at the end of her fifth and last patrol on 25 October 1944 in the Formosa Strait.

From the inside dust jacket:
The true story that we had been spotted seemed almost certain with the arrival of a floatplane and then four bombers. The planes did not bother us as much as the ear-splitting echo-ranging of the destroyer, the pings blasting through our hull as she closed the range.
"Set all torpedoes on two feet and open the outer doors!" . . . from the Fourth Patrol, Part V.
The hunter has become the hunted, and thus begins the classic dance of death between destroyer and submarine, which may end with a crashing salvo of depth charges or the zing of a 21-inch torpedo. Packed with the danger, tension, and drama of submarine warfare, this scene has been replayed countless times in fact and fiction, but never before with such authentic firsthand detail.
Samuel Eliot Morison called Tang "fabulous." Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, commander of the submarine force in the Pacific during World War II, described her fifth patrol as "one of the great submarine cruises of all time." Richard… Read More