Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific by Deborah Hopkinson
Author:Deborah Hopkinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016-03-09T05:00:00+00:00
Two sailors study a chart.
George and the others exchanged glances. “Now it was clear that our captain had advanced from mere rashness to outright foolhardiness,” he wrote later. “Harbors are often treacherous at best…. It would be madness for the Wahoo to submerge and enter an enemy harbor whose very location on the map we didn’t know….
“Yet here was this skipper of ours, grinning at us under his jutting nose as if he had just told a funny story, assuring us we were going to do it and we’d darned well better find out which harbor was Wewak or he’d just pick the most likely one and go in.”
Madness, it seemed, was exactly what the Wahoo was now all about.
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