Fightin' Navy #100

When a nuclear missile submarine is crippled and seized by enemy frogmen in the North Atlantic, Commander James T. Hallman and his trapped crew must rely on the resourcefulness of a nearby Navy sub—and one volunteer diver willing to risk everything—to prevent America's most classified military secrets from falling into hostile hands. With orders from the White House forbidding a direct torpedo strike, Lieutenant Buck Espinosa and his men orchestrate a desperate underwater battle against overwhelming odds, where ingenuity and sacrifice become the only weapons that matter.

Chief Boatswain's Mate Michael J. Duffy has become the backbone of the USS Delisle—a destroyer with a reputation for bad luck that he's transformed into a fighting ship—and when the Navy assigns her a dangerous solo mission to intercept a Japanese transport convoy, Duffy's leadership and courage are put to the ultimate test. As the Delisle closes in on the enemy under cover of darkness, the crew looks to their chief to see them through what may be their toughest battle yet, and Duffy proves why he's known as the very soul of the ship.

Captain Johnson and Sergeant McNulty carry the weight of a wartime memory—fifteen men who couldn't swim across a river during a desperate retreat—into their new assignment training soldiers at Fort Blunton. When paratroopers face an unexpected water drop, the two men see their chance to prove that survival swimming isn't just a skill, it's the difference between life and death. Drawing lessons from tragedy, they build a rigorous program to teach modern soldiers how to cross rivers and stay afloat under combat conditions.

When a bathysphere carrying frogman Mike Holman and Dr. Emil Auerbach descends into the deep ocean trench where an atomic bomb was detonated, they encounter something far more terrifying than expected—a colossal creature that forces them into a desperate fight for survival. As the monster pursues them to the surface, the full might of the Navy must decide whether conventional weapons can stop an enemy born from the blast itself.