Submarine!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Son of a well-known naval officer, Edward L. Beach Jr. graduated from the Naval Academy in 1939. During World War II Captain Beach participated in the Battle of Midway, and his submarines conducted twelve combat patrols that sank or damaged forty-five ships. A highly decorated officer, Beach received the Navy Cross and the Silver Star. After a number of postwar assignments, Captain Beach served as naval attaché to President Dwight Eisenhower from 1953 to 1957. In February 1960 Beach began his record-breaking voyage in the nuclear submarine USS Triton, which circumnavigated the earth submerged in sixty-one days. During her nearly thirty-one thousand mile journey, Triton set a speed and endurance record that stands today. In May President Eisenhower presented Beach with the Legion of Merit. Captain Beach retired from the Navy in 1966. In addition to a brilliant naval career, Beach wrote novels, memoirs, and naval histories, works that earned him numerous literary awards. Among his books is the bestselling Run Silent, Run Deep. In honor of both Edward L. Beach and his father, Edward Sr., the home of the U.S. Naval Institute in Annapolis, Maryland, was named Beach Hall. Edward Jr. died in December 2002.