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Borie's Duel to the Death A Halloween Night

… The USS Borie, named after a distinguished Secretary of the Navy, had been commissioned into a world at war. As part of Task Group 21.14, its mission primarily had been the ubiquitous and unending hunt for German U-boats, which threatened the lifeline of supplies between the United States and its allies in Europe. Prior to that fateful night, Borie had already tasted battle, its hull weathered, and its crew tempered by the relentless North Atlantic. As autumn 1943 approached, the darkened seas were fraught with peril. Convoys were a lifeline threaded through a deadly labyrinth of Nazi submarines. Task Group 21.14, a hunter-killer group, patrolled the vast and volatile ocean expanse under Captain “Red” Beardall, charged with the detection and destruction of any lurking predators—a silent war fought largely beyond the sight of land and peace. The atmosphere aboard was tense; the crew was constantly on high alert, knowing that the conflict could find them at any moment. Each rolling wave could hide a periscope; every distant echo on the sonar could be a torpedo in the gloom. It was during this high tension that radar picked up an anomalous signal late on October 30, 1943, sending chills deeper than the ocean's cold.