Rembrandt: Healing of Peter’s Mother in Law. (Wiki)
A Reflection for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
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As skipper of the Wahoo, a submarine newly commissioned in 1941, Lieutenant Commander Dudley W. Morton rewrote expectations for submersibles in the Second World War. The U.S. Navy had previously valued them as scouting craft, but that changed in February 1943, when the Wahoo returned to Pearl Harbor, sporting eight Rising Sun flags on one of her signal halyards. Five of those ships, totaling 32,000 tons, had been sunk on that cruise alone.
The Wahoo’s captain and crew were focused warriors, but, as Ian W. Toll records in