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Dublin-born Roger Casement, knighted in 1911 for services to His Majesty's consular service, had been caught after being put ashore on a wild stretch of the Irish coast by a German U-boat on Good Friday, 1916, when an Irish rebellion was in the making. What seemed to the British government a clear case of treason was to many an Irishman patriotism...
...instinct for omens, Commander Anderson early spotted his future. As a boy, in Bakerville, Tenn., he and a playmate would seal off most of the decks of a couple of rowboats, invert the craft on the river, poke their heads into the unsealed air pockets and stage mock U-boat fights. Annapolis trained, with an outstanding submariner record in World War II and Korea (Trutta, Tang, Wahoo), Anderson was tapped for duty with Admiral Hyman Rickover's NRB (Naval Reactors Branch) in January 1956. First came an interview with the caustic godfather of the atomic sub. The Rickover Takeover...
...Enemy Below. A DE (Robert Mitchum) and a U-boat (Curt Jürgens) tangling in a running fracas sharply directed by Dick Powell (TIME...
...Enemy Below. A DE (Robert Mitchum) and a U-boat (Curt Jürgens) tangling in a running fracas sharply directed by Dick Powell (TIME...
...Enemy Below. A DE (Robert Mitchum) and a U-boat (Curt Jürgens) tangling in a running fracas that is sharply directed by Dick Powell (TIME...