Book review #18 for 2024 is W Craig Reed's Red November: Inside the Secret US-Soviet Submarine War. Beginning with 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and continuing into the early 1990's, Reed's book recounts US sub operations and their electronic surveillance and espionage missions into Soviet territory. I liked it and thought it gave some excellent background to some Cold War era events.
☕☕☕☕review @bookstodon@books#navalhistory#coldwar#submarines
"In fact, the compartment where I would spend the night—which contained six small, curtained-off bunks, as if on a train’s sleeper car—was effectively wedged between two Tridents." —Adam Ciralsky for Vanity Fair
Culled from many never-before-published narratives and oral histories conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Naval Institute, Submarine Stories presents nearly five dozen first-person accounts from men who were involved with gasoline- and diesel-powered submarines during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Hillary warned us. She said a man you can bait with a tweet could not be trusted with nuclear weapons. Now we’ve learned Trump blabbed about our nuclear sub capabilities, including warhead capacity and detectability by Russia, to a rich buddy of his just to show off. Trump couldn’t be trusted then, and he should never be trusted again.
RE #trump blabbed about our nuclear sub capabilities (how close they can get to a #russian sub and ⭕NOT be detected)
#usnavy Submarines Were Lost Because of Andrew May in 1943
During his press conference in 1943 he leaked that the US #submarines usually dived to 100ft (could go to 400ft but he didn't leak that). This got back to the #Japanese and they changed their fuse settings from 50 to 100 feet #ww2
🌊 Ever wondered why #submarines are called boats and not ships? Besides that they were once carried by ships, their smaller size also earns them the term. Dive into #DrowningEarth, where the HMS Bancroft is a boat on a mission like no other!
On the anniversary of the end of World War II, I had to post this story about the rescue of the O-19 by the USS Cod. Trust me, it related to the anniversary. It's a whopping great story. Check it out, toss in a couple of bucks so I can keep telling these stories if you are so inclined.
I have to say this is an old story but one of the most clever marketing stunts I have seen.
I'm just picturing a Soviet submarine crew that took a really wrong turn at R'lyeh and all you can hear from the conning tower is "сука блять!" and Катюша coming from an old LP record.