5/11/2023 0 Comments Thunder below eugene fluckey![]() ![]() ![]() The first pass wasn’t fast enough for FDR. “He wanted the Barb to reenact her return to Pearl with battle flags flying as he filmed some home movies,” wrote Fluckey in his action-packed memoir, Thunder Below! FDR enjoyed it so much he asked that all of Fluckey’s future patrol reports be sent along to him-and then demanded a bit more. Charles Lockwood, gave it to President Roosevelt, who happened to be at Pearl Harbor on the Barb’s return. Indeed, his report on the patrol was so full of new ideas, so gung ho, positive, and entertaining, that the commander, Adm. But with Fluckey placed in temporary command, the Barb got five freighters and two trawlers with the Barb’s guns its next time out-and Fluckey got the Barb. It was a bold gamble the ship Fluckey had been eyeing, the USS Barb, had sunk only a single ship in six patrols under its previous commander. ![]() Eugene Fluckey, seeking his own submarine command, promised the Pacific Fleet sub commander at Midway Island that he would sink five Japanese ships on his first patrol. ![]()
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