Sweet and totally believable.
In their prime they had a helluva Navy.
If one was to die at sea, I'd rather die from a Russian hit than the Norks or Chinese. It'd be far more honorable.
Yes, and they knew everything that was going on. We didn’t know it at the time but this was the peak of the Walker Spy Ring penetration, and the Soviets were reading all of our KW-7 traffic.