Due to the risk of marauding U Boats of the Imperial German Navy patrolling the ... and painted in "black and white blobs" with a 22 pounder gun forward of the conning tower, the submarine approached ...

Once he graduated submarine school Scarano went back to Groton for Christmas and waited for a posting. "I thought I'd like to get a boat out of the sub base," he said. "It had just been launched." "It ...