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George Jones spent his youth in Arkansas working on his family’s hardscrabble farm and searching for opportunities made scarce by the Great Depression. Deliverance came in the form of an enlistment into the Navy. He first served in the Asiatic Fleet near war-torn China. Later, George joined the Submarine Service and sailed on two of the “S” boats, riveted WWI antiques that were called on to meet the challenges of modern warfare as America’s Navy rebuilt after Pearl Harbor. George’s story is one of excitement and danger, comradeship and loss, struggle, and victory. Also a Navy veteran, Stephen Leal Jackson spent eight years in the submarine force. Jackson has published books and articles on the cultural and military history of submarines in the twentieth-century. His unique perspective as both a submariner and historian allows Jackson to provide the reader access to the gripping trials and terrors of the undersea battles of World War II.