Anyone seen this? One of the film victims of the Black Sniffles, it is available on Apple TV. Based upon the late CS Forester’s (he of Horatio Hornblower fame) 1955 novel The Good Shepherd, it tells the story of a US Destroyer, the USS Keeling, and its fight to escort a convoy across the Atlantic in 1942. The battle for the Atlantic was perhaps the decisive struggle in World War II, and yet is sadly neglected in most general histories of the War. If American troops, munitions and supplies could get across the Atlantic the Third Reich would be eventually defeated. If not, Hitler stood a good chance of winning his War, or fighting to a draw with Stalin. The struggle was a fantastic three dimensional battle, involving cutting edge technologies, seemingly ripped from the science fiction pulp magazines of the time. Thirty-six thousand Allied sailors and thirty-six thousand Allied merchantmen went to watery graves to keep the Atlantic sea lanes open, and they deserve a greater appreciation of their role in the victory won in Europe.
A full review after I get around to seeing the film.
Samuel E. Morrison’s book, “The Two-Ocean War: A Short History . . . has an excellent section that very tough to crack ‘nut.’
Mr. Morrison also wrote a valuable book on Columbus, “Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of . . . “
The Battle of the Atlantic was, to quote Wellington, “the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life.”
Thank Heaven Hitler wasted all that steel and construction capacity on things like the Bismarck and Tirpitz instead of more U-Boats.
A friend’s son’s is featured in this. BTW, has there been trouble with your web site? Last week or two, seemed stuck on St Phocas post.
We transitioned to a new server around July 3 and we have been bug hunting since.
Rob Maloney:
Switch browsers. I had the same problem on my phone.
It’s still coming up as Saint Phocas on my Brave phone browser, but Chrome (sigh–hate Google) shows regular updating.
Thank Heaven Hitler wasted all that steel and construction capacity on things like the Bismarck and Tirpitz instead of more U-Boats.
Hitler, as he admitted, had zip understanding of naval war. He was ill served by his Admirals who never mustered a unified front for a full bore U-boat war.
Samuel E. Morrison’s book, “The Two-Ocean War: A Short History . . . has an excellent section that very tough to crack ‘nut.’
His multi-volume history of the US Navy in World War II has a prized place in my library.
“..but Chrome (sigh–hate Google) shows regular updating.”
I find that it mostly works for me on my phone.
I use Brave on my Sansung A10e. Usually works fine. I clean out history every so often.
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The new Edge is built on the open source framework of Chrome, but belongs it Microsoft. Website has worked for me so far.
(Who I prefer because their money comes from offering a service good enough that I’ll buy it– and it works, I got their 365 package, the onedrive storage alone is worth it.)
Oddly, Edge on my phone shows the July 3rd/ Saint Phocas as the last post as well.
Looks like it might be related to a WordPress optimizer/SEO plug-in.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mobile-website-is-not-updating/
I had the problem of being stuck on the July 3rd version of the home page. I noticed that the version that was stuck on July 3rd was using the https://www.the-american-catholic.com/ URL. When I use the https://the-american-catholic.com/ URL I get the current home page. The www prefix appears to be the culprit.
Sorry to have derailed this into an IT discussion. Prob solved when I was able to click on link to page from Big Pulpit, and then replace existing link in my favorite with that. Unfortunately, Googled American Catholic and lands on Phocased page. Could have resisted that, but didn’t.]
Verified that removing the www. works here, too.
Don
Excellent navel action movie, with good plot acting and chaotization. . A bonus the Greyhound is a man of faith. Check it out.
Thanks Hank for the recommendation and the info.
Saw it and well worth it. Faith is powerfully expressed without overstatement.
Filmed in part on the USS Kidd that is now a museum ship berthed on the Mississippi at Baton Rouge. They make reference to the Kidd during the movie.
A Fletcher class destroyer, the Kidd was named after the first flag officer to be killed in WW II – Admiral Kidd who was on the bridge of the Arizona at Pearl Harbor.