U.S. Naval Undersea Museum Store & Foundation is now carrying Mary Nida Smith’s Heroes Beneath the Waves – Submarine Stories of the 20th Century!
Below Decks Log USS Sea Fox (SS-402) Association Newsletter Winter 2018 Edition – Copied from Sea Fox get-together report. Silverdale, WA Oct 2017
“Jerry arranged for us to have a guided tour of the Naval Undersea Museum, which was so chock full of information and items from submarines that we couldn’t fit it all in with the few hours we had there. In the gift shop at the museum, Jerry Foss and Joel Greenberg had authored a section in a submarine book titled: Heroes Beneath the Waves so we bought copies and had Jerry autograph them for us. I can’t thank Editor Joel M. Greenberg enough for all the support he and the Sea Fox members have provided for Heroes Beneath the Waves.” www.navalunderseamuseum.org
The unbelievable stories of the heroic men who sailed under the sea.
In Heroes Beneath the Waves, many brave men who rode submarines to great depths and across the oceans into unknown territory share their experiences, fears, and thoughts. They allow us to travel back in time through their memories. Trained for years to keep silent — for “loose lips sink ships” — many still believe what they know to be classified and refuse to disclose even the minutest of recollections. Others, however, want to leave a legacy of reminiscences for people to learn and live by, to know that freedom is not free.
Heroes Beneath the Waves is about teenage boys who left farms, small towns, and inner cities to defend the United States and democracy worldwide. Signing up for United States Navy submarine duty was an adventure of a lifetime during the early 1940s. Dreams of torpedoing Japanese and German ships and subs consumed their thoughts. Those who returned home as young men were older and wiser. Heroes Beneath the Waves was written to honor these men—gallant heroes—who served and are serving today on submarines.
Mary and Chief Melvin T. Smith, STC (SS)USN-RET who served aboard the USS Snapper (SS-185), USS Quillback (SS-424), USS Sea Leopard (SS-484),USS Sennet (SS-408), and the USS Sea Fox (SS-402)
As the wife of a submariner, Mary Nida Smith lived through many troubled day. Her husband, Melvin T, Smith, was one of these honorable men. He is a lifetime member of the USS Submarine Veterans Inc., (Holland Club) and the Vice Commander of the USS Submarine Veterans Base, Mountain Home, Arkansas and also former member of the Idaho Spuds-USS Submarine Veterans of WWII and the Northwest Regions/Idaho/Montana/Oregon/Washington. Through it all, she stuck by him—and wrote. Mary Nida Smith, author, freelance writer, poet and photographer has lived in several states, submitting and publishing in local magazines and newspapers.