Concur. Great read about audacious stunts of our Navy. Side Note: My uncle fessed up to being the winner of that game of chance as to which CT would go along on the trip to plant that wiretap. He told me that he knew that is would entail sitting on the bottom of the ocean for a year doing NOTHING and that he really didn't want any part in that and that he rigged the game to select the other person.
Hell of a great book. Makes me appreciate the sacrifices made by all those old guys drinking beer and talking with each other, some with faded anchor tattoos, one or two with a bulldog smoking a cigar, in the bowling alleys of my youth. They're all gone now. The new generation doesn't know their story.
Good book.
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Concur. Great read about audacious stunts of our Navy.
DeleteSide Note: My uncle fessed up to being the winner of that game of chance as to which CT would go along on the trip to plant that wiretap. He told me that he knew that is would entail sitting on the bottom of the ocean for a year doing NOTHING and that he really didn't want any part in that and that he rigged the game to select the other person.
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Great book
ReplyDeleteHell of a great book. Makes me appreciate the sacrifices made by all those old guys drinking beer and talking with each other, some with faded anchor tattoos, one or two with a bulldog smoking a cigar, in the bowling alleys of my youth. They're all gone now. The new generation doesn't know their story.
ReplyDeleteA very great book and a large part of the basis for the movie "Pacific".
ReplyDeleteRead it a few years ago after I watched The Pacific. Excellent book.
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