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On 12 August 1943, on Midway Island, Lt. Cdr. I. J. Galantin took command of the submarine USS Halibut. For the next fourteen months, Galantin and his officers and crew would play their part in the unrelenting attack on Japan's navy and merchant marine. But it was in Luzon Strait in November 1944 that the submarine and its crew underwent their greatest ordeal. Detected while attacking a decoy, Halibut was subjected to an assault of appalling ferocity. Badly damaged, the sub and crew endured hours of desperate manoeuvring and helpless waiting before the enemy finally gave up.