I am grateful to the following, who aided me in editing portions of the rough draft of this book:

Joseph Tucker, Sailfish lieutenant; George Brown, Sculpin lieutenant, the only officer to survive captivity; Carl Bryson, Gerald McLees, and Jud Bland, Squalus survivors; Aaron Reese, Sailfish-Sculpin veteran; Lester Bayles and Larry Macek, Sailfish veterans; George Rocek, Edwin Keller, and Billie Minor Cooper, Sculpin survivors; and Arthur G. McIntyre, the senior American officer held captive in Ashio in 1945.

Also a note of appreciation to Michael Talbot, the Australian author who assisted me in my Albany-Perth research; Capt. Frank Wheeler, an Annapolis classmate of Sailfish captain Robert Ward; Mark Gatlin, acquisitions editor at the NIP who was enthusiastic and supportive from the beginning; Therese Boyd, superb copyeditor who fine-tuned the manuscript for me; my father, a veteran of the destroyer USS Halford, who gave me a feel for the Pacific war; and my wife, Mary Anne, who made significant contributions to the direction of the manuscript and helped sharpen the overall story. I couldn’t have done it without her.