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Book Review of The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History

The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
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This is a well-researched narrative of the first deep-water submarine rescue on the eve of WWII and the man who engineered it, Swede Momsen. It also details how he invented the aqualung and fought Navy bureaucracy to get the lung and rescue equipment built, tested, and used.