"If we had only known even a bit of what John Craddock tells us now, our own history could have been so very different."
In First Shot, John Craddock investigates a little-known but clear eleventh-hour warning that, had it been heeded, might have enabled the Navy’s Pearl Harbor command to blunt the Japanese assault and save ships and lives. Craddock reveals that the attack plan of Japan’s Admiral Yamamoto included five midget submarines, each carrying two men and two torpedoes. First Shot vividly recreates the action on the deck of the U.S.S. Ward on the morning of December 7 as the outmoded relic of an earlier war engaged a tiny, state-of-the-art undersea fighting machine.
--Sherry Sontag, coauthor of Blind Man’s Bluff
- ISBN13 9780071479110
- Publish Date 16 November 2006 (first published 16 January 2006)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint International Marine Publishing Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English