The Silent Service Author:William C Chambliss True stories about the daring Americans of the Pacific submarine force who helped defeat the powerful Japanese enemy in WWII. Against hopeless odds they took their boats under the seas in a desperate attempt to stem the Japanese advance. Their orders were: sink the enemy's fighting ships...wipe out their commercial reoutes...locate and plot th... more »eir mine fields. It was the most perilous job of the war. One by one their torpedoes were to bread the military strength of an overwhelmingly powerful enemy and prepare the way for American victory. Written by a US naval aviator who served in the Pacific Theater and was aboard the aricraft carrier Wasp when it was sunk by the Japanese, The Silent Service is an on the spot, true story of the heroic men who turned the tide of war in the Pacific--the US submarine force.« less