War in the Boats: My World War II Submarine BattlesSubmarine duty in World War II was extraordinarily dangerous: nearly 22 percent of all American submariners who fought lost their lives. What kind of man could face these odds, day after day, in a cramped, leaky vessel hundreds of feet below the surface? Bill Ruhe was one of them. A twenty six year old ensign just three years out of the Naval Academy, he kept a journal on eight action filled patrols against the Japanese in the South Pacific. Based on