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Hell and High WaterBy Sam Moses | World War II | 4 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post The trawler went down. Some might argue that sinking sampans and trawlers is hardly a challenge, or even a very good use of a well-armed American submarine. But to Fluckey, a bet was a bet, and the trawler was his fifteenth and final kill. Subscribe Today
 Fluckey used every trick in the book, including ramming trawlers (left) and torpedoing tankers (center) and freighters like the Koto Maru (right). So ended Eugene Fluckey’s combat career. He would go on to become an aide to Adm. Chester W. Nimitz after the war, and later, as a rear admiral, was named director of naval intelligence. He finally retired from the service in 1972. But he always fondly recalled the ship and crew that brought him such acclaim early in his navy service, and his parting from the Barb reminds us that even the Galloping Ghost had human dimensions: “I didn’t have the courage to have a formal relieving aboard ship with the crew at quarters,” he wrote his wife at the time. “I would have blubbered.” Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Help HistoryNet by bookmarking to
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4 Comments to “Hell and High Water”
Very good article, Comdr. Fluckey was quite a man.
But what I was most taken with was the account of the fate of the USS Herring. You see my Uncle, Malcom Carrol was abord the Herring when it went down and this is the first account of what actually happened to him that I have ever read.
Thanks,
Carey Marcantel
By Carey Marcantel on Aug 28, 2008 at 11:27 am
Absolutely incredible.
Great read.
By 1IDVET on Dec 10, 2008 at 7:12 pm
If interested read Flucky’s book, “Thunder Below!” an excellent story of an excellent crew and boat!
By Steve on Apr 16, 2009 at 10:04 pm