Stephen Crane was a PT Boat Skipper?!?!?!?!?
Haw.
Well, this fellow I am thinking about could very easily have had a Red Badge. Not of courage, however.
Enough evidence to give a suspicion, and a tiny bit more. Throw in his Dad's ties with Armand Hammer and close adherance to the Moscow Line during the 1935-41 period, starts looking a bit more than just fishy to me.
Shoot, let's ask Phil. Phil, you there?
NO NO NO! I think he was talking about Rudyard Kipling and Captains Courageous. I'm sure it was just a small oversight on Iris7's part that he didn't finish the word Courage.