Edward L. Beach, Jr.

Edward Latimer Beach Jr. , nicknamed Ned, was a highly decorated United States Navy submarine officer and bestselling author.

Beachs bestselling novel, Run Silent, Run Deep, was made into the 1958 movie by the same name. The son of Captain Edward L. Beach Sr. and Alice Fouch Beach, Beach Jr., was born in New York City and raised in Palo Alto, California.

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