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... sailors , touching them in little ways . Mothers patted flat their sons ' collars , fingering the white piping . Little boys saluted their fathers . One by one the sailors kissed their wives and children and disappeared down the hatch ...
... sailors , touching them in little ways . Mothers patted flat their sons ' collars , fingering the white piping . Little boys saluted their fathers . One by one the sailors kissed their wives and children and disappeared down the hatch ...
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... sailors . " Willie Joe , " he said , " I hear we got a green pea . 99 " That's right . " " Did you check him out ... sailor standing in the passageway , hands stuffed in the pockets of his jumpsuit , staring at the maze of piping and ...
... sailors . " Willie Joe , " he said , " I hear we got a green pea . 99 " That's right . " " Did you check him out ... sailor standing in the passageway , hands stuffed in the pockets of his jumpsuit , staring at the maze of piping and ...
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... Sailors Sailors in every compartment grabbed whatever was close and held on . " Stern planes up twenty degrees . " " Up twenty degrees , aye . " " Pump forward trim tank number one to aft trim tank number two . " The bow rose sharply ...
... Sailors Sailors in every compartment grabbed whatever was close and held on . " Stern planes up twenty degrees . " " Up twenty degrees , aye . " " Pump forward trim tank number one to aft trim tank number two . " The bow rose sharply ...
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Admiral Agatha Christie Alexis Alpha American Arkangel Atlantic Attention all hands Aye aye Barra Barracuda blip boat buoy Cakes captain Catherine Cookson Chief collision compartment console control room Control to sonar crew cuda Davic deep depth Dherzinski Dick Francis diving Elizabeth Ferrars engine room eyes Federov fleet Fogarty Fogarty's going Gorshkov head heard Hoek Hotel class hull hundred feet hydrophones intercom Kitty Hawk knots Kurnachov listened looked Lopez Mako Margery Allingham miles minutes Naples navy Netts nuclear Okay Olonov patrol Pisaro Popov Potemkin reactor Russian sub sailors screen ship shit sink smiled sonar room Sonar to control Sorensen Sorensen and Fogarty SOSUS sound Soviet Soviet Navy speed Springfield stared steam Stern planes stop Strait submarine sure surface Swordfish tanks tape thousand feet torpedo room torpedomen tube turned Vallejo watch weapons What's Willie Joe World War Three Yeah zero