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    The Komar Incident
    The Komar Incident
    The Komar Incident
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    The Komar Incident

    By John Kilgallon

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    "The Komar Incident" will place the crew of the USS Whitefish (SS-432) between a rock and a hard place. After an incident involving Cuban patrol boats, the Whitefish is ordered back to base by the US Navy. Captain Gus Haynes and his crew will not go quietly while a Soviet Foxtrot submarine is on the loose in the Florida Straits--behind the blockade! This is all framed within the context of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is a fictitious event, but tenser by the minute, given the greater political theater of October 1962. There were four Foxtrots the Navy prosecuted during the blockade of Cuba. There was a fifth already in the Caribbean, south of Cuba, but it retired home under tow as a result of an engineering casualty. 

    What if it didn't? 

    --John

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Kilgallon
    Release dateFeb 26, 2019
    ISBN9781386851240
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      The Komar Incident - John Kilgallon

      Copyright 2014, all rights reserved, John Kilgallon

      Published by Thunderbidz Book and Hobby

      License Notes

      This eBook and short story are licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this story with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite eBook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      All characters in this work are fictional and any resemblance to real persons, living or deceased, is purely coincidental.

      Author's Note

      On October 22, 1962, every ship and submarine was deployed from the Naval Base at Key West, Florida.  The destroyers went to get into position to enforce the Cuban quarantine that was announced that night by President Kennedy. The 13 submarines all sortied up the east coast to defend ports and shadow Soviet submarines, ready to strike if they ran the blockade. US submarines tracked at least four Foxtrot class Soviet diesel submarines approaching the line. It was discovered later that there was a Foxtrot already in waters south of Cuba. It didn't do anything during the quarantine. But in this story, it does.

      This story is dedicated to my father, James R. Kilgallon, USN (Retired), departed on Eternal Patrol January 5, 1996. He was a plank owner of the real U.S.S. Atule (SS403) and was aboard her for all four of her war patrols from 1944 until the Japanese surrender in 1945. He served in the Navy as both enlisted and officer for over 26 years and fought in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Just prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis, he was stationed in

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