Captain Schwab is a freelance writer and photographer living in Maryland. A 1939 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he had submarine, destroyer, and amphibious flagship commands and held various high- level positions with the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations before retiring from the Navy in 1965. He then served as Senior Foreign Service Officer and Director of Force Planning with the U.S. Mission to Nato and as a research analyst with the RAND Corporation and IDA for ten years. Captain Schwab is the author of Undersea Warriors: Submarines of the World (Lincolnwood, IL: Publications International, Ltd., 1991). He was navigator in the USS Darter during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
