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Title: Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns
Sinking the German U-Boats

Author: Halsey Davidson

Release Date: March 11, 2006 [eBook #17967]

Language: English

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NAVY BOYS BEHIND THE BIG GUNS

Or

Sinking the German U-Boats

by

HALSEY DAVIDSON

Author of
"Navy Boys after the Submarines," "Navy Boys
Chasing a Sea Raider," Etc.

Illustrated

New York
George Sully & Company
Publishers

[Illustration: The gunners were literally "stripped for action," their
glistening supple bodies alert as panthers.]

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BOOKS FOR BOYS

NAVY BOYS SERIES

BY HALSEY DAVIDSON

12mo. Cloth. Illustrated

NAVY BOYS AFTER THE SUBMARINES
Or Protecting the Giant Convoy

NAVY BOYS CHASING A SEA RAIDER
Or Landing a Million Dollar Prize

NAVY BOYS BEHIND THE BIG GUNS
Or Sinking the German U-Boats

NAVY BOYS TO THE RESCUE
Or Answering the Wireless Call for Help

NAVY BOYS AT THE BIG SURRENDER
Or Rounding Up the German Fleet

THE NAVY BOYS ON SPECIAL SERVICE
Or Guarding the Floating Treasury

GEORGE SULLY & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
GEORGE SULLY & COMPANY

_Navy Boys Chasing a Sea Raider_

PRINTED IN U.S.A.

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NAVY BOYS BEHIND THE BIG GUNS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER