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The first half is full of FUBARs during his transit to Africa. The second half goes into the details of the "Massawa Miracle".

Here's a great website that has Ellsberg's letters to his wife about the whole mess.

Ellsberg wrote a slew of books. Anoether good one is "On the Bottom" - raising the S-51 after a collision off of Block Island, NY in 1925. Neat section on how they took a thick piece of brass rod and, out on the ocean, turned it into a vastly more efficient nozzle for burrowing under the sub. And then we have the ad hoc repair to a pump that was still in place years later.