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...order: "All right, general quarters." The port gunner, a blond youngster named Richard Dudziak, started to fire into the engine of an approaching plane. It looked like an American SBD but the location of two blue-burning exhausts meant a Jap torpedo plane. As the plane passed over, Skipper Berlin could almost reach and touch the red ball on the wings. One wing tip knocked off the Who, Me?'s antenna, and another scraped the forward gunner. The plane swept like a piece of paper into the darkening...
...ugly duckling painted on the bow. The duckling pointed to itself with one wing and above was the legend, "Who, Me?" The skipper was Theodore Berlin, a slender, dark Reservist of 22 who had come to the Navy from the University of California at Los Angeles...
...idled in the darkness, not sure where the other ships were. A red blinker flashed in the night; it was the LCI calling for aid. Skipper Berlin ran his ship alongside. After a hasty conference the LCI's skipper ordered "abandon ship" and men poured over the side onto the Who, Me?'s flat wooden deck...
...Buccaneers. Skipper of the Flying Fish is slim, quiet Commander Glynn Robert Donaho of Normangee, Tex. He remembers when the Flying Fish ran into an enemy task force close to shore. He scored hits on one ship and was taking a setup on a second when an aircraft bomb dropped close aboard. Things got so hot afterwards that one of the crew broke out all the candy in the stores, declaring, "We might as well eat it up now, we may never have another chance." But the Flying Fish survived, sank or damaged 100,000 tons of enemy shipping...
There is Commander Bill Brockman who carried part of Carlson's and Jimmy Roosevelt's raiders on the Makin Island raid in the summer of 1942. There are men whose exploits are legendary in the service: "Mush" Morton, big, amiable skipper of the Wahoo, one of four submarines to win a Presidential citation; Commander Frederick Burdett ("Peanuts") Warder, a mild-appearing, silent man whose only regret for his historic rampage in the Java Sea as captain of the Seawolf is that it inspired some writer tc curse him with the nickname of "Fearless Freddie"; Commander Mike Fenno...