Escape From the Deep (17 page)

Jesse DaSilva at submarine
training school in San Diego.
(
Courtesy DaSilva family
)

Floyd Caverly before leaving Pearl
Harbor on the
Tang
’s final patrol.
(
Courtesy Caverly family
)

“Uncle Charlie,”
Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood,
Commander Submarines Pacific.
(
U.S. Navy
)

Bill “Boats” Leibold.
(
Courtesy Leibold family
)

The U.S.S.
Tang
in Pearl Harbor, 1944. (
U.S. Navy
)

The tower used for
escape training at
submarine school
in New London,
Connecticut.
(
U.S. Navy
)

Escape training using the Momsen Lung at submarine school. (
U.S. Navy
)

Richard O’Kane,
left, with his mentor,
Dudley “Mush”
Morton, 1943.
(
U.S. Navy
)

Richard O’Kane with twenty-two rescued airmen. (
U.S. Navy
)

The submarine dock at Midway. (
U.S. Navy
)

The
Tang’
s battle flag. (
Courtesy Leibold and DaSilva families
)

The U.S.S.
Tang
. (
Courtesy DaSilva family
)

The docks at Mare Island. (
U.S. Navy
)

An artist’s depiction of men trying to escape the
Tang
. (
Original painting by Fred Freeman for U.S. Navy
)