The Galloping Ghost (45 page)

U.S. Naval Academy,
7–8
; slang vocabulary of midshipmen,
8
; summer training cruises of,
10
; teaching methods at,
9

U.S. Naval Academy Athletic Association,
149

U.S. Naval Group China,
100–101

U.S. Navy,
141
,
160–61
; ballistic and cruise missiles of,
147–48
,
160–61
; concern of over its Pacific bases,
19
; modernization of coal-burning battleships,
19
.
See also
submarines (United States)

Vietnam War,
165
,
166
,
170

Virgin Islands,
35

Voge, Richard,
76

Wade, Gordon,
115

Waldschmidt, W. T.,
36

Walker, William, Jr.,
125
,
127

Wallace, Margaret Eleanor.
See
Fluckey, Margaret (née Wallace)

Walsh, W. J.,
135

Washington, George,
3

Waterman, John R.,
45–47
,
48–49
,
50
; joint command of with GF on the
Barb
,
54–58

Weaver, Everett (“Tuck”),
52
,
54–55
,
64
,
83
,
162
,
163
,
179
; experiences aboard the S-30 submarine,
64
,
98
; opinion of GF,
61
; reassignment of after nine war patrols,
98

Webster, James,
104
,
105

Wilkes, John,
42

Williams, Franklin,
109
,
115

Wright, E. Alvey,
166

Wyoming
,
14–15
,
36

Zabriskie, David, Jr.,
60
,
63
,
67

Zukor, Gene,
149

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Back from the Deep: The Strange Story of the Sister Subs Squalus and Sculpin
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Slade Cutter: Submarine Warrior,
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Nautilus
and the book
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Jules Verne gave him a lifelong curiosity about the Silent Service and underseas exploration. In high school he was co-founder of the Merced Explorers, which mapped many of the limestone caves of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

LaVO is assistant managing editor of the daily and Sunday Bucks County
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