Kamis, 06 April 2017

Mid-Atlantic Brawl

Halloween 1943: A no-holds-barred fight breaks out between crews of USS Borie (DD-215) and U-405, with weapons from torpedoes to tommy guns. For most of the World War II Battle for the North Atlantic, sailors on outmoded U.S. Navy destroyers endured numbing boredom and frustration. But on Halloween 1943 the skipper and crew of USS …

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