Spy Sub by Roger Dunham

Spy Sub by Roger Dunham

The book bristles with the excitement of the chase. -- The New York Times Book Review

Would-be Captain Nemos and other fans of undersea adventure will enjoy this vigorous memoir. -- Publishers Weekly

Spy Sub is the acclaimed story of the secret mission by the American nuclear submarine, code named US Viperfish, to find a lost Soviet submarine armed with nuclear missiles in the great depths of the Pacific Ocean. This story is based on true events that remain classified by the U.S. Department of Defense, nearly 50 years after the search. Moving silently beneath the Soviet ships prowling on the surface, the Viperfish hunt was so secretive that even the men on the vessel never knew the object of their search. The brave exploits of these sailors and their commanding officer recount one of the greatest undersea searches in naval history. The failures, the near-catastrophes, and the challenges are described in personal detail and their final success earned them the highest award for a submarine crew, the Presidential Unit Citation. The story of how these men brought critical intelligence information to President Lyndon Johnson is a saga like none other in the annals of submarine exploits.

Roger C. Dunham, M.D. served as a nuclear reactor operator in the U.S. Navy's Submarine Service during the 1960's. Following his honorable discharge in 1969, he earned a medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine.

Dunham, Roger C.: - Roger C. Dunham (website: Rogercdunham.com) was born in Pasadena, California, and following a brief and unremarkable journey through one year of junior college, he joined the United States Navy. After three years of intense training in electronics, nuclear power theory and operations, nuclear reactor prototype procedures, and submarine school, he served as a reactor operator aboard a spy submarine in the Pacific Ocean for another three years. During that time, his experiences created the foundation for his book SPY SUB, published by the Naval Institute Press. Because of the highly classified nature of the story, the Pentagon worked closely to ensure no secrets relating to the finding of a Soviet Submarine in the western Pacific Ocean were ever revealed to the public. After he received his honorable discharge and began premedical studies at the University of Southern California, he was accepted at the UCLA School of Medicine where he graduated in 1975. His internship year at USC-LAC Medical Center in Los Angeles began with one month on the Jail Ward, caring for dangerous wounded and sick prisoners, the experiences of which created the basis for his second book, FINAL DIAGNOSIS. Dr. Dunham and Keiko (celebrating their 50th anniversary this year) have raised two children (a daughter and a son) and he has worked as a physician for 40 years, practicing Primary Care Internal Medicine. The years of his medical practice created the foundation for his third book, SURVIVING MORTALITY published in 2018, bringing readers the challenges faced by many of his patients whose lives were threatened by their own personal impending mortality. Through the doctor's eyes, the desperate efforts by these patients to survive the threats of traumatic forces from nature provide a better understanding for improvement and even a survival from the threats readers may experience as they face their own potential mortality. He began writing ROGUE CAPTAIN in 2014, and with the support of his shipmates and his submarine's commanding officer, as well as others in the Navy, several fathers with daughters, and many of his patients, he completed the book for publication in 2018.

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ISBN 13	9780451407979
ISBN 10	0451407970
Title	Spy Sub
Author	Roger Dunham
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Onyx Books
Year published	1997-06-01
Number of pages	312
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