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Guerrilla Submarines Paperback – January 1, 1972

by H.C. Dissette, Edward; Adamson (Author)

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ballentine Books 1972; First Thus. edition (January 1, 1972)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0345025970
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0345025975
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces

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Michael J. Mcclure

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Didn't really capture the drama, scope or the effect of the submarine effort to support the Pacific guerillas in my opinion. Would not buy again, donated the book to the library for resale on their annual excess book sale. May be interesting to some, but for me was probably not worth the time to read.

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MacArthur's Underwater Lifeline

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2013

An attempt to cast light on an obscure chapter in World War II's Pacific Campaign, "Guerrilla Submarines" fails to do much with its subject. It's too repetitive, written in a very dry and rah-rah manner, and only gets interesting when it veers off subject.

After the Philippines fell to Japan in 1942, organized resistance continued on various islands at the behest of U. S. General Douglas MacArthur. To spur on this guerrilla activity, MacArthur not only encouraged them with his vow "I Shall Return," but had fleet submarines pay occasional visits, dropping off cargo and picking up refugees.

"The mutual respect between the two totally different type [sic] of fighters - the men in the fields and the men in the boats - is what welded the guerrilla units into a fighting force," is how former U. S. sub captain Edward Dissette and Hans Christian Adamson sum it up at the end.

If so, it's not a point the narrative bears out. What you get instead are a series of disconnected action stories of various submarines in Philippine waters making side trips between hunting missions to drop off a puny cache of supplies, and pick up a few people who sometimes carried vital intelligence or just humanitarian concern. The stories repeat in so similar a fashion you get to thinking you could write one yourself. Sub duty was hazardous, and few military units inflicted a more disproportionate amount of damage than U. S. submariners in the Pacific during World War II. Yet the events described in "Guerrilla Submarines" play out as milk-run-like sidebars to all that.

A few submarines got depth-charged, and one, the "Seawolf," was lost with all hands, although in that case in an episode of friendly fire. Dissette, who was the principal writer as Adamson died three years before "Guerrilla Submarines" 1972 publication, wants you to know all his brother captains and the parts they played, to the point of lingering too long on their individual missions and personalities. This draws away from the bigger picture. So does an emphasis on the rightness of U. S. command decisions and particularly MacArthur at every turn. Revisionism isn't necessary, but one wants a critical distance lacking here. Dissette proves a loyal soldier but not much of a writer as he passes along long excerpts from officers' reports, and echoes the sometimes empty-sounding platitudes of their superiors.

One aspect I kept wondering about were the guerrillas themselves, which operated as autonomous gangs in various islands. Betrayals and executions were commonplace, as were attacks on isolated Japanese garrisons. Colorful mentions of this poke through here and there, but along the edges of the narrative, just as reasons for submarines making stopovers. What happened with the guerrillas after the subs did their runs is largely passed over.

The book only really takes off near the end, when MacArthur made good on his vow to return and Filipino guerrillas carefully coordinated their actions with that of the U. S. invasion of late 1944. Submarines helped but were never the main event, and long sections of this narrative ignore them entirely to focus on the actual invasion and the naval battles surrounding it. This at least was a good read, but a wide detour from the title subject.

It's not a terrible book, just not an important one by any stretch of the imagination. I suspect if Adamson, an experienced history writer, had lived long enough, "Guerrilla Submarines" would have been cohered better and had a more polished, objective tone.

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Aloha Reader

they did their best to work their orders under dire circumstances

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2017

The story of a group of submarines chartered with keeping the Philippine mountain fighters armed to cause constant chaos to the Japanese occupiers. McArthur was short of manpower and saw an opportunity to distract the Japanese with these brave guerilla fighters. McArthur was desperate in very dark times of the Allied forces.
The book's value is in the stories the submarine commanders faced in their mission. While I'm sure these commanders wanted other assignments, they did their best to work their orders under dire circumstances.

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