I have written a book about a submarine that I was proud to have served on for four years during my career in the United States Navy. The name of my book is: U.S.S. TUNNY, The U.S. Navy’s First Guided Missile Submarine: A History, Tribute, and Memoir. I am pleased to announce that my book is now available for purchase as an eBook through the services of Amazon.com. (The link will take you to it.) The title of this book is but one of this submarine's many achievements. As a former crewmember, and the longest serving Yeoman who ever served on Tunny, I have researched and written a three-decade history of Tunny's operations and activities from 1942 through 1969, which was no small task. My book identifies the names of those who took Tunny on its 19 patrols and 14 special operations it conducted during World War II, the Cold War and the Vietnam War. My book pays tribute to more than 1,500 officers and enlisted personnel who served on Tunny and their names are listed throughout its contents. If you served or know of someone who served on Tunny, their name will be in this book that describes Tunny's unique and previously undocumented history. My book also features biographies of Tunny's 13 commanding officers, 19 executive officers, and 18 Chiefs of the Boat (COBs).
As one former executive officer wrote in his description of when we served together on Tunny, serving on a World War II constructed diesel-submarine in the North Pacific Ocean during the Cold War, "was not for sissies". There in the cold environment, we braved for months on end the worst possible natural elements with World War II-era equipment carryiing modern nuclear-powered weaponry ready to be launched at predetermined targets. Tunny's crews were the pioneers to the Polaris programs that followed. My book pays a respectful tribute to the U.S.S. Tunny (SS, SSG, APSS, LPSS-282) that once served as the oldest boat in the Pacific Fleet and second oldest in the U.S. Navy.
A brief introduction to the book's contents can be found on my website and that is also where you can preview the book's foreword written by Dr. David Karl Stumpf, author of REGULUS: The Forgotten Weapon. Additionally, you will find endorsements about my book's contents made by two of my former Tunny crew members and former shipmates, Dan Moss and "JJ" Jenkins. There too are several comments from former Tunny crewmembers who attended Tunny's 2017 Reunion of former crewmembers in San Diego, California. I hope that you will buy my book and should that happen, I look forward to hearing directly from you that you did.
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