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...chances with the enemy minefields; going out, Fluckey figured he would slither through an area marked "rocks" and "unexplored" on his chart. That way, the Barb would be an hour's run from safe diving depth, and it might make deep water if, as Fluckey hoped, the Jap escort craft were afraid to follow directly. Shortly after 3 a.m. the Barb went in. It was a submariner's dream: some 30 ships lined up like pins in an alley. Eight torpedoes hit six of them, including two ammunition ships, and turned the harbor into "a wholesale fireworks display...
...Navy (current strength: 10,000 men, 40 ships) will double its manpower and build up a force of 100 ships for anti-submarine and escort duty...
...delay, without food for a whole day, [we were] taken to a filthy Chinese hotel for the night. At no time were we allowed to get in touch with [H.M.'s charge d'affaires at Peking]. On 31st December, we went by train to Tientsin under escort, were placed in the Rich hotel and not allowed to leave the bedroom or talk with anyone . . . We were then put on board the S.S. Heinrich Jessen for Hong Kong...
...hours, squadrons of French-manned Sherman tanks, each followed by 10 to 15 truckloads of combat infantrymen, paraded through Hanoi, criss-crossing through the streets into every quarter of the city to magnify the appearance of strength. In Saigon, De Lattre ordered 44 U.S. Bearcat fighters, unloaded from the escort carrier Windham Bay, to be towed through the streets in full view of the Indo-Chinese public...
Neighbor. In Providence, John de Rosa charged that Albert J. Sullivan kept a neighborly promise to escort De Rosa's wife and two children to the movies, then excused himself, went back to the De Rosa house and stole the radio...