[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by tater

Reading "War in the Boats" (awesome, BTW), it occurred to me the other night that Munson's last patrol as skipper of Crevalle would be a great movie. It wasn't a fantastic patrol, but it has a lot of drama and personal interest.

Munson is starting to crack, basically. He's acting sort of bipolar. When he's on the ball, he's amazingly aggressive, then he'll blow off following up. At one point, 2 of his officers (including Crevalle's next skipper, Walker) are talking about the fact they should follow the cripples of their last, agressive surface atatck and finish them off, and something is wrong with the skipper... and Munson is right there in the same room in the shadows. He tells them if they want to take over his command, go ahead. He means it sarcastically, but Walker goes ahead and does! There is a threat by Munson to court martial them for mutiny, but in the end he commends them for taking over when he was burned out and they feel like heels.

Also, they end up rescuing guerillas on RTB, including 11 women, and 17 kids. Loads of stuff going on for a movie to make it more generally popular than a grognard sub movie, ya know?

tater

I love it.

But who'd believe it?