Word: seadragon
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...Nose Toward Mecca. These are only a few of the stories of U.S. subs. Battle Submerged and Sink 'Em All are crammed with more, blending the heroic and the ironic. They tell of how Pharmacist's Mate Wheeler B. Lipes of the Seadragon performed the first submerged appendectomy, a success "with the help of God and a long-handled spoon"; of how the Barb's commandos landed in Japan and blew up a train; of how the Sargo heartbreakingly fired 13 torpedoes at fat targets, only to have all 13 prove duds (flaws in the exploder mechanism...
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