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During World War II, Lieut. Per Edvard Danielsen's swashbuckling sea-raids against the Nazis made him something of a national hero. In 1941, as skipper of a motor torpedo boat, he helped strike one of the first blows against the Quisling government, in a Commando raid from Britain against Norway's Nazi-occupied island base of Maaloy...
...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors; high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...
...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors: high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...
...binding plant outside Los Angeles. Lieut. Marovish was a prosperous insurance broker. He had bought a new home a few weeks before being recalled. The business was going down every day and he was worried sick. Sooner or later he feared he'd lose that house. Their skipper back at the base was Lieut. Commander Ray Nittinger, Lieut. Marovish's insurance partner. It isn't easy for men like these to swallow this sort of thing without gagging slightly...
...Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk. The saga of a minesweeper with a misfit skipper and level-headed juniors: high-grade realism in a story of World War II (TIME, April...