"Skipjack personnel during this period have become accustomed to use of "ersatz," i.e., the vast amount of incoming non-essential paper work," Lt. Cmdr. James Coe wrote in his letter to the Navy.

For most of recorded history, more men have died from disease in some faraway field than from an enemy bullet. "Diseases," writes historian John A. Haymond, "particularly those of the insect-borne or ...

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