Fightin' Navy #77

A Navy skipper's obsession with hunting down a submarine elusive enemy proves justified when his gut instinct keeps him searching even after his crew believes the threat is eliminated. With radar blips and false leads mounting, he refuses to abandon the chase until he's certain the sub is truly destroyed. Eighteen months of frustration finally yield the kill he's been waiting for.

Chief Bosun's Mate Joe Boland has a reputation for running a tight ship with grueling drills and tough discipline, but when his cruiser is ordered to provide fire support off the Korean coast in 1951, his crew discovers just how much his relentless training matters in actual combat. As MiGs attack and the gun crews face real danger, Boland's iron discipline and combat experience prove invaluable—and his men finally understand why he pushed them so hard.

When a torpedo hits their ship, Musclehead Moran and his crewmates find themselves stranded on a raft in waters controlled by enemy forces—and the crew's only hope of survival rests on the navigation knowledge and tactical thinking they once mocked him for studying. In "Better Than Vitamins," Moran's shipmates discover that brains can be just as valuable as brawn when lives are on the line.

In "Musclehead Moran," a quiet sailor once mocked for his bookish habits proves indispensable when his ship is sunk during a wartime mission. With no compass and no map, it’s Moran’s knowledge of navigation that guides the crew to a remote Korean island, where they must steal a boat to make their way home.

A submarine crew's readiness exercise goes dangerously wrong when a torpedo circles back toward the ship—and sailor Williams, already unpopular for his complaints about life aboard, becomes the prime suspect. When the captain blames Williams for the malfunction, the troubled sailor must prove his innocence and uncover who's really sabotaging the vessel before the next test firing. "Wild Torpedo" is a tense Cold War undersea thriller about one man clearing his name amid suspicion and danger.

In 1940, Sgt. Henry Larson commands the St. Roch, a 105-foot Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner on an ambitious voyage from Vancouver to Halifax—a 10,000-mile journey through the treacherous Arctic waters of the Northwest Passage, a route that had defeated sailors for two centuries. As the crew battles frozen seas, brutal winters, and the unforgiving polar landscape, they undertake patrols, make historical discoveries, and push toward their goal across a continent of ice.