Who else is holding up the honour of the Fleet Boats?

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Originally Posted by CDR Resser

FLEET BOATS FOREVER !!!!!!
Have been a Fleet Boat fan since I first read "Clear the Bridge" at age 9.

Just about exactly the same for me. I bought the book at a little bookstore in Maine when I was a few years older than that. The lady who owned the bookstore saw me looking at the book and told me her brother had been the navigation officer (XO?) on the Tang when she went down. I had read Run Silent, Run Deep and Dust on the Sea by Beach before that but suddenly I was holding a book about real men, many who died aboard her. It was one of those moments where I grew up a lot. I have the book still and read it every few years and think of that woman in Maine.