Kamis, 14 September 2017

Red Ramage’s Wild Ride

An American sub skipper chases an elusive Japanese convoy—and finds unparalleled glory. The commanding officer was hopping back and forth between the lookouts on the radar screen in the conning tower, and the plot table in the control room. The seamen with the binoculars saw nothing. The radar revealed no blips. And the chart on …

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