Download or read book Torpedoes Away! (Annotated) written by Maxwell Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Torpedoes Away! Maxwell Hawkins breathlessly covers the tense, dangerous missions of submarines USS Trout, Sea Raven, Pollack, Skipjack and Cuttlefish in the first eighteen months of World War 2. Between these first-hand reports stitched-together from interviews with crewmen, Hawkins describes the mechanical workings of submarines, as well as the history of submersibles beginning in the 17th Century. Hawkins spent over a year sifting through the archives of the Navy Department and conducted extensive interviews with many veteran submariners about their experiences in the Pacific during World War Two. The result is a classic study of underwater warfare, a must read for military historians and World War 2 buffs. *Includes footnotes and official photographs from World War 2.