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U.S. Navy veteran David Sears is an author and his-

torian. His most recent book is 8IKQÅK)QZ. Suggested

reading: 0Q\TMZ¼[=JWI\?IZ"<PM0]V\ML!

!, by Clay Blair; and 0Q[\WZaWN=VQ\ML;\I\M[

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by Samuel Eliot Morison.

WHEN

THE CHARGES

EXPLODED,

“IT WAS AS IF

AN INVISIBLE

HAND GRABBED

AND SHOOK THE

BOAT.”

prickly target

U-966’s crew depended

on its “Wintergarten” of

flak guns to fend off Allied

attackers before the sub

finally ran aground on

November 10, 1943.