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Originally Posted by ACP230
I have several Ruark books around here.
He was a good writer and shotgun shooter.
Confessed in his safari book that he wasn't much of a rifle shooter.
He also served in World War II on the Murmansk run.
He recounts seeing a U-boat "that wasn't there" in the middle of
a convoy on that run one time. Sort of like the "Unexplained"
thread on this site, eh?
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He also got to Italy, and shot an enemy soldier in an alley with a P-38 9mm.
Later was in the Pacific and his writing career began to flourish.
He got away from the Navy with his .45 auto and typewriter and later had to pay for them. But he got to keep them.
Does anyone recall his short story, "Sheila" in, "Playboy"? The protagonist was seeing a chick in London and a bomb or V-1 rocket landed on her apartment and left just a hole. Sad, but good.