first the jets with cannon and rockets made a dozen or so sorties, penetrating the skin and generating shrapnel everywhere. No one was spared on the deck. Then the slower Mysteres dropped napalm nearer the bridge of the ship. Three Israeli-flagged PT boats showed up and fired five torpedoes...
"If I had known that in a few short years I would be stationed in French Morocco with a PB4Y-2 squadron, I would have paid more attention to my surroundings. What I did notice was that the country was very much like the area around my home in Southern California; wide open beautiful ...