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I just finished reading The Terrible Hours

In The Terrible Hours, Maas reconstructs the harrowing 39 hours between the disappearance of the submarine Squalus during a test dive off the New England coast and the eventual rescue of 33 crew members trapped in the vessel 250 feet beneath the sea.

Charles "Swede" Momsen

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They had that story on “The History Channel” a few days ago. I can’t begin to describe how awful that time must have been for the survivors. Also the Russian Kursk in which they all died but some survived for awhile.

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In November 1945, he directed a fleet of nearly 200 surplus Army and Navy ships, manned by Japanese crews, that evacuated the first of nearly six million Japanese from Manchuria, Formosa, and islands in the Pacific.

Never realized that the U.S. Navy moved all these enemy combatants over to Japan.

Would make a great FR Foxhole.