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© 1972 by Edward L. Beach

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First Bluejacket Books edition, 2004

ISBN 978-1-61251-545-8 (eBook)

The Library of Congress has cataloged the paperback edition as follows:

Beach, Edward Latimer, 1918-2002

  Dust on the sea / Edward L. Beach

      p. cm. — (Bluejacket books)

  1. World War, 1939-1945—Naval Operations—Fiction. 2. World War, 1939-1945—Naval Operations—Yellow Sea—Fiction. 3. Submarines (Ships)—Fiction. 4. Yellow Sea—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series.

  PS3552.E12D87 2004

  813’.52—dc22

2004042680

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