| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 783.5 .F56 C36 2010 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
18126 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9781599219349 (hardbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 783.5 .F56
- Item number - C36 2010
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
- Classification number - 940.54/51
- Edition number - 22
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Campbell, Douglas A.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Eight survived :
- Remainder of title - the harrowing story of the USS Flier and the only downed World War II submariners to survive and evade capture /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Douglas A. Campbell.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Guilford, Conn. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Lyons Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2010.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 288 p., [8] p. of plates :
- Other physical details - ill., maps ;
- Dimensions - 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-268) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Map of the World War II career of the USS Flier -- Treacherous passage -- Pacific peril -- Missing from action -- A gathering of men -- A second chance -- Welcome to the War -- Strangers in their native land -- The wages of winners -- Mines and mariners -- Back toward glory -- Trapped in the path of war -- Changed orders -- In the shadow of death -- Choosing freedom -- Spirits of the land -- By land and by sea -- Into the jungle -- Escape -- Map of the eight submariners' survival and rescue.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.S. submarine Flier struck a mine in the Sulu Sea in the southern Philippines as it steamed along the surface. All but fifteen of the more than eighty-strong crew went down with the vessel. Of those left floating in the dark, eight survived by swimming for seventeen hours before washing ashore on an uninhabited island. The story of the Flier and its eight survivors is wholly unique in the annals of U.S. military history. Eight Survived tells their story, and that of their fellow servicemen who never made it home."
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Corporate Name |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - Flier (Submarine)
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Submarine.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Naval operations, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Search and rescue operations.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Submariners
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- Form subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Disaster victims
- Geographic subdivision - Sulu Sea
- Form subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Submarine mines
- Geographic subdivision - Sulu Sea
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th century.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Shipwrecks
- Geographic subdivision - Sulu Sea
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th century.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Survival
- Geographic subdivision - Sulu Sea
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th century.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Sulu Sea
- General subdivision - History, Naval
- Chronological subdivision - 20th century.
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