Submarine!

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Aside from the thousands of officers and enlisted men of the United States Navy and the United States Submarine Forces, I am indebted to:

Captain Edward L. Beach, USN, my father, who many years ago also wrote about the Navy;

Donald Kennicott, forty years with Blue Book, who first put me in print and kept me there — as he has so many others;

Helen Grey, editor and adviser, who helped make this book a reality;

Henry Sell, of Town & Country, who provided the spark;

Jonathan Leff, editor at Henry Holt & Company; and

Ingrid, my wife, who would still like a ride in a submarine.