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...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...
Lieut. Commander Philip Queeg of the U.S.S. Caine, a four-piper destroyer converted to minesweeping, was a phony and misfit skipper. A pallid little man turning to fat, one of the low men in his Annapolis class, he could handle neither his ship, his officers nor his men. He was a martinet, a liar, a petty tyrant, and, when the chips were down in combat, a coward. On escort duty in the Pacific, all this became painfully obvious, even to a raw ensign like Willie Keith. When a typhoon hit the fleet in the Philippine Sea in December...
...Decision on Principle. Last week, her Navy contract ended, the Empire Marshal lay at a Yokohama dock, her rusty, barnacle-encrusted hull high out of the water. Skipper William Lamont returned from the agent's office with the news that the Empire Marshal had been ordered to Dairen to load soybeans for England. A crew member yelled, "That's Red China!" Unanimously, the 58 crewmen-four Poles, three expatriate Chinese, one German, 50 Scots and Englishmen-applied the lesson they had learned from the Communists on the way to Indo-China. They voted not to take the ship...
...Gilmore ordered. Four men, two of them hurt, slid down the hatch, but not Gilmore, who was helplessly wounded. His last order, in a crisp voice, was "Take her down." He had to say it once more before his executive officer closed the hatch, took her down, leaving his skipper to drown. The Growler made it home, to fight again...