title: Final Patrol: True Stories of World War II Submarines
author: Keith Don
description: The riveting story behind the submarines that wreaked havoc during World War II-from the award-winning author of In the Course of Duty
  
  During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered the highest casualty percentage of all the American armed forces, losing one in five submariners. But despite the odds, these underwater warriors accounted for almost 60 percent of Japanese shipping losses, and were a major factor in winning the war. 16 U.S. submarines-and one German U-Boat-that saw action during WWII are now open to the public. Most have been restored and authentically equipped. Final Patrol takes a fascinating look at these subs and the personal stories of the brave sailors who lived, fought, and often died in them. Now, visitors can climb into these cramped steel cylinders, peer through their torpedo tubes, and imagine diving under the sea-perhaps for the last time-to stalk a fanatical enemy who threatened our nation's freedom.
zlib_text: STORM FORCE FROM NAVARONE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  by
  
  
  Sam Llewellyn (script from Alistair MacLean)
  
  
  
  
  
  The action-filled sequel to two of the greatest adventure novels of all time -
  Alistair Maclean’s The Guns of Navarone and Force 10 from Navarone.
  
  
  Alistair Maclean’s gritty heroes from Navarone are not dead, and definitely
  not forgotten. Mallory, Miller and Andrea, the surviving commandos from Force
  10 from Navarone are sent on operation Storm Force: a perilous mission through
  the Pyrenees to disable the greatest threat to the success of the D-Day
  landings - the ‘Werwolf’ U-boats.
  
  
  The Storm Force have less than six days to locate the submarines and destroy
  them. With communications insecure they must operate outside normal channels,
  cut off from any back-up. Their Basque guides declare it mission impossible.
  
  
  But they have never worked with Mallory.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## PROLOGUE
  
  March 1944
  
  
  
  
  
  The radar operator said, ‘Contact. Three bloody contacts. Jesus.’
  
  
  The Liberator dipped a wing, buc