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George Laderbush, of Portsmouth, was a torpedoman’s mate about the USS Flier when it sank after striking a Japanese mine.

Mr. Holzer said the Iowa managed to maneuver out of the way, and later, when the torpedoman on the destroyer was court-martialed, the president intervened, sparing the sailor a long prison sentence.

Willinsky had gone to torpedoman’s school with two members of the Thresher’s crew.

After he left Great Lakes, he went to Key West, Florida, for 10 months training as a torpedoman.

"Weapon in motion," yells Torpedoman's Mate Cody Krollpfeiffer as a hydraulic lift readies a Mark 48 to be jammed into one of the four tubes.