USS Tambor (SS-198)

Robert Hunt, the subject of a new book entitled We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War (Naval Institute Press, Fall 2009), describes watching the Japanese bombardment of Wake Island from his submarine, the USS Tambor; a bomb strike that damaged his sub, then entering Pearl Harbor days later, viewing the smoking destruction from the bow of the Tambor as it made its way through debris toward the Pearl sub base.

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Eyewitness To World War II: Robert Hunt, On The Submarine USS Tambor, At Wake Island & Pearl Harbor

Robert Hunt, the subject of a new book entitled We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War (Naval Institute Press, Fall 2009), describes watching the Japanese bombardment of Wake Island from his submarine, the USS Tambor; a bomb strike that damaged his sub, then entering Pearl Harbor days later, viewing the smoking destruction from the bow of the Tambor as it made its way through debris toward the Pearl sub base.

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