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Not all of the ships got through safely. If a vessel's cargo was explosive, the only evidence of a hit was a blast of detonation, a wave of concussion, and a streak of boiling white water. Another ship and another crew lost in the struggle for a free world. Constant vigilance was the price of survival at sea. Forced to their limits, tired eyes scanned the horizon in the hope of sighting the dreaded wake of a periscope before it was too late. Through fog and darkness, the ships steamed on, their sole security resting in the quality and alertness of the man on the bridge.
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A story of sacrifice... The convoy system was devised to protect slow merchant vessels from the German wolf-packs. Around the perimeter of vessels ranged the convoy escorts, ferreting out the enemy submariners. The hunter and the hunted! Aboard the ships men went about their routine daily tasks and chores. Lifeboats were always swung out. A seaman never knew when his vessel was in the cross-hairs of an enemy periscope. A torpedo streaking through the water, a flash of light, a mighty clap of man-made thunder, and a once-staunch ship was a torn, wounded hulk on her way to the grave. Seamen were cast out on the cold, hostile sea, bobbing in lifejackets, or, if they had time, in a small storm-tossed lifeboat. Many drifted for days, awaiting a rescue that never came, left to die in that barren, landless void of the sea. Men faced these dangers with an almost boring recurrence. Acts of heroism and daring went unnoticed in the welter of momentous activity. Where did we get such men? On our war memorial gleam two hundred-and-twelve names, the names of fellow Cadet-Midshipmen who, in the course of duty, lost their lives in the protection of our country. This is where we get such men.
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