"It may sound strange, but ponder on this: the periods at sea – cramped in mold-ridden, diesel-hammering, oxygen-lacking, urine-reeking, excrement-laden, food-rotting, salt encrusted steel cockleshells, firing torpedoes in exultation, searching for convoys in frustration or receiving depth charges in stoic fear –\xa0these periods were the wholly admirable ones, regardless of who received the torpedoes or the depth charges, our side or theirs."

- Capt, E. L. Beach, US Navy (Ret.)