{"id":95,"date":"2014-02-12T17:28:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T23:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2014-02-12T16:03:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T22:03:23","slug":"next-project-the-komar-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/next-project-the-komar-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Project &#8211; The Komar Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing research and taking notes on sub deployments and the Cuban Navy during the early 1960s. The information will be used in a story I&#8217;ve tentatively titled &#8220;The Komar Incident.&#8221; One of my favorite Cold War movies was <strong><em>The Bedford Incident<\/em><\/strong> with Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier. It was a tense thriller that takes place in the North Atlantic with a US Navy guided missile destroyer dogging a Soviet submarine.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/27\/USS_Farragut_%28DLG-6%29_underway_in_1967.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">USS Farragut, DLG-6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Widmark was the US Captain and Poitier was a correspondent from a magazine. I don&#8217;t know if anyone remembers a short nerdy actor by the name of Wally Cox, but he played the overworked Sonar technician on board.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_96\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-96\" alt=\"USS Sea Poacher actually took part in the blockade. She is the type submarine the USS Whitefish is patterned after.\" src=\"http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0840601-300x151.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0840601-300x151.jpg 300w, http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0840601-1024x517.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0840601-500x252.jpg 500w, http:\/\/johnkilgallon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/0840601.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USS Sea Poacher actually took part in the blockade. She is the type submarine the USS Whitefish is patterned after.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The Komar Incident&#8221; will place the crew of the USS Whitefish (SS-432) between a rock and a hard place. After an incident involving Cuban patrol boats, the Whitefish is hunted both by the US Navy and an unknown fifth Soviet Foxtrot submarine armed with a nuclear torpedo. This is all framed within the context of the Cuban Missile Crisis. A fictitious event, but tenser by the minute in the greater political theater of October 1962. There were four Foxtrots the Navy prosecuted during the blockade of Cuba. There was a fifth already in the Caribbean, south of Cuba, but it retired home under tow as a result of an engineering casualty.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/05\/Cuban_Foxtrot_submarine.jpg\/320px-Cuban_Foxtrot_submarine.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"212\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foxtrot Submarine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>What if it didn&#8217;t?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing research and taking notes on sub deployments and the Cuban Navy during the early 1960s. The information will be used in a story I&#8217;ve tentatively titled &#8220;The Komar Incident.&#8221; One of my favorite Cold War movies was The Bedford Incident with Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier. 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