Book 2013

Submarine Commander

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Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 2013

United states, navy, biography
Ship captains

Hvalfjordur, Iceland, December 1941. A few minutes before midnight, as the sixth of December passed into history, I scaled the familiar six ladders from my stateroom to "sky forward," the weatherbeaten compartment housing the antiaircraft director in Wichita, where I stood watch as gunnery control officer.