American submarine commander (1911–1994) who received the Medal of Honor for his service aboard the U.S.S. Tang. Signed book: Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang. Later printing. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1979. Hardcover with dustjacket, 6.5 x 9.25, 480 pages. Signed and inscribed in ink on the half-title page, “To fellow mariner Vince Edmunds, who fough WWII in the ‘Amphibs’ in an LCT from the Admiralties to New Guinea through the Philippines, and finally Shanghai, with especial pleasure, Richard H. O’Kane, June 24, 1980.” Accompanied by an ALS from O’Kane presenting the book and noting that this edition is “free of the interpolations by the female editor and … again the way I wrote it.” In very fine, clean condition. R&R COA.
