The Terrible Hours
The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
by Peter Maas · October 1, 1999
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Provides an account of how, shortly before World War Ii, a heroic Naval officer named Swede Momsen led the efforts to save thirty-three men trapped in a sunken submarine.
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