Mike Ostlund holds a masters degree from the University of Iowa. He is a member of the Naval Submarine League, an associate member of the United States Submarine Veterans, and an honorary research affiliate of NUMA Australia. He lives with his family in Iowa City, Iowa.
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Contents Foreword by George Seiler, Torpedoman, USS Gudgeon Preface Introduction Chapter One: Lone Wolf-First War Patrol Chapter Two: Escape from the East China Sea-Second War Patrol Chapter Three: The Tide Turns-Third War Patrol Chapter Four: Fortress Truk-Fourth War Patrol Chapter Five: Butchery in the Bismarck Sea-Fifth War Patrol Chapter Six: Commando Operations-Sixth War Patrol Chapter Seven: Wild Bill, Wild Patrol-Seventh War Patrol Chapter Eight: Lieutenant Penland and the Kamakura Maru-Eighth War Patrol Chapter Nine: The Irisher-Ninth War Patrol Chapter Ten: Reporting for Duty-Tenth War Patrol Chapter Eleven: Down the Throat-Eleventh War Patrol Chapter Twelve: Missing, Presumed Lost-Twelfth War Patrol Chapter Thirteen: The Mysterious Yuoh Island-Twelfth War Patrol, the Theory Chapter Fourteen: After the Gudgeon Afterword Appendix One: Muster Roll of the USS Gudgeon, Patrols 1-12 Appendix Two: Combat Results of the USS Gudgeon Bibliography Index
"While there have been many fine books written about the missions . . . of the U.S. submarine fleet in WWII, few if any will be able to compete with the sheer detail and personal accounts presented by Mike Ostlund." -Naval History