The adventures of a young ensign assigned to frogman duty during World War II.
He stood on the edge of the cliff and thought bitterly that even the bighorn were against him. The big sheep had left a well-worn trail along the ridge of the mountains which he had been able to follow even in the predawn light, and such a trail should have led to water. Instead, it came to this ...
She was 77 feet long, 20 feet wide, and drew 4 feet of water. When her temperamental engines were right and her bottom was clean she could go 60 miles an hour, which, for a boat, is very fast. In the narrow waters around Bayonne, New Jersey, where she was built, she looked pretty big. On the vast...