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March 11th, 1943, 0347 Hours - North Atlantic
The USS Benson shudders as depth charge number 23 rolls off her stern and disappears into black water 200 miles southeast of Newfoundland. Petty Officer Thomas "Tommy" Reardon, a 24-year-old Navy welder from Iowa, presses his carbon-stained hands against the cold steel bulkhead in the engineering compartment. He waits for an explosion that should come in 8.3 seconds. The seconds tick past. No explosion. No pressure wave. No telltale oil slick confirming a German U-boat kill. Just silence. Again. This is the 23rd dud depth charge this week, and somewhere in the darkness, a Nazi submarine commander is laughing all the way back to occupied France. But Tommy Reardon has figured out why the American depth charges are failing, and his solution will change the Battle of the Atlantic forever. The cost? Forty-three cents. The secret? A rubber gasket and a welding technique he learned fixing tractors on his father's farm.