Now in paperback, revised and updated, the stirring and authoritative account of one of World War II's most highly decorated submarines Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em is the first book to recount the tragic and mysterious loss of the World War II submarine USS Gudgeon. In April 1944, the highly decorated submarine USS Gudgeon slipped beneath the waves in one of the most treacherous patrol areas in the most dangerous military service during World War II. Neither the Gudgeon nor the crew was ever seen again.Author Mike Ostlund's "Uncle Bill," the operator of a farm implements business, was aboard that ship as a lieutenant junior grade. Through extensive research of patrol reports in U.S. and Japanese naval archives, interviews with veterans who had served aboard the Gudgeon before its final patrol, and the personal effects of the lost men's relatives, Ostlund has assembled the most accurate account yet of this remarkably successful submarine's exploits, of the men aboard from steward to captain, and of what we now know about her demise. Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em details the memories and life lessons of the young men who went to sea aboard Gudgeon before its last patrol knowing hardly anything, and came home having seen too much.
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.
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
