Eugene B. Fluckey, Rear Admiral, USN (Ret.), was a 1935
graduate of the United States Naval Academy. For his valor under
fire, Lt. Cdr. Fluckey was awarded four Navy Crosses and the
Congressional Medal of Honor, unequalled by any living American.
The crew of the USS Barb received the Presidential Unit Citation
and Navy Unit Commendation. In 1989 the U.S. Navy honored Fluckey
by naming the nuclear submarine Combat Systems Training Center, the
largest and highest building in New London Connecticut, Fluckey
Hall, the only building there named for a living person. His last
active duty was as NATO Commander in Chief of the Iberian Atlantic
Area in Lisbon, Portugal, from which he retired in 1972. In June
1991 he did research for Thunder Below in remote villages on the
coast of China. Of his many citations, Fluckey said he was most
proud of the one medal no member of his crew was ever awarded: the
Purple Heart, given to those wounded under fire.
A Main Selection of the Military Book Club. Winner of the Rear
Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature given by
the Naval Order of the United States, New York Commandery.
"The real story of a real hero."--Tom Clancy
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