CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART image THE OPENING SALVOES OF WAR

Accounting for Pearl Harbor’s Japanese Midget Subs

Sneak Attack: The Destruction of USS Arizona

Caught in the Open: HMS Repulse and HMS Prince of Wales

PART image HUNTING THE KILLERS

Salvage Work on the Admiral Graf Spee

U-550: Hunting the Sub Code-Named “Red George”

Hunting Trophies: U-Boats in Captivity Today

PART image SINKING THE BIG FLEETS

Sink Everything in Sight: Operation Hailstone

Bikini Atoll Battlefleet

PART image NO LONGER HIDDEN

USS Grunion (SS-216): Lost with All Hands

I-400 Class: Japan’s Panama Canal Killers

PART image BACK FROM THE BRINK

Once-Discarded PT Boat Now Fully Restored

Hidden in the Nests

Epilogue: See a World War II Shipwreck for Yourself

Appendix I: US Navy Ship Force Levels, 1939–1945

Appendix II: Preserved World War II Ships

Bibliography and Suggested Reading

Index