Final Harbor

Author’s Note

All the characters in this novel are fictional. There was no intent to limn any person, living or dead. Those readers who served in submarines in the Pacific in World War II will notice a certain chronological compression of some events, a device the author felt necessary for the purposes of the story.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Clay Blair, Jr., whose monumental work on the role of the United States Submarine Navy in World War II entitled Silent Victory (published by J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1975) served to refresh my memory.