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...good luck, U.S. Navy radiomen had picked up a message about Oyama's plight. The Navy's headquarters at Yokosuka ordered the nearest submarine rescue ship, the Coucal, to Oyama's aid. The Coucal clipped four hours off her estimated time on a flank-speed, 500-mile run to Nagasaki. It took the sorely tried Oyama aboard, and doctors went with him into the sub's decompression chamber. He spent 38 hours there and breathed a mixture of helium and oxygen to help flush out the nitrogen. At the end, Oyama could stand shakily...
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