Final Harbor

Dedication

This book is dedicated with profound respect to the memory of the 3,508 officers and enlisted men who died in the sinkings of 52 United States Navy submarines in World War II, some of whom I had the pleasure of serving with before their deaths.

It is dedicated also to those submariners who lived through the bitter and dangerous years of the submarine war against the Empire of Japan — in particular to Lieut. Comdr. Joseph J. Sibley, USNR, who was the personification of the ideal submariner, in war or peace.