Books: The Davy Jones War

SUBMARINE (301 pp.) — Commander Edward L Beach—Holf ($3.50).

Ensign Edward L. Beach liked it where he was in the fall of 1941. Just a couple of years out of Annapolis and only 23, he was patrolling the Atlantic in an ugly old four-piper destroyer that, to his loyal eyes, looked "lovely." When he was transferred to submarine school, he tried to have his orders rescinded. But he went, of course. On New Year's Day, 1942, he reported to his new home, U.S.S. Trigger (SS 237). Thought young Beach: "Wonder if I'm looking at my coffin?" Trigger did become a coffin for...

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