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by Peter Maas (Author) "It was a Tuesday, May 23, 1939..." (more)
Key Phrases: control pontoons, rescue chamber, helium hat, Swede Momsen, New London, Admiral Cole (more...)
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May 23, 1939. Television was being advertised for the first time to American consumers. Europe was on the brink of war as Hitler and Mussolini signed an alliance in Berlin. These were the days before sonar and before the discovery of nuclear power revolutionized submarine design. Dependent on battery power, submarines were actually surface ships that "occasionally dipped beneath the waves." If a sub went down, "every man on board was doomed. It wa