Leaving Port

In 1961 Charles Gallagher graduated from the Naval Academy at the age of 20. Little did he know that after his first ship completed a Mediterranean cruise it would be the first ship to leave port under emergency Top Secret orders for a mission that turned out to be the Cuban Missile Crisis . . . and that he would be part of an unfolding thrilling terrifying scenario that involved forcing a Russian submarine to surface. And that amazing story is only one of the remarkable exploits described in this gripping memoir. Follow Charles as he searches for a lost hydrogen bomb obeys surprise orders to transfer to a US submarine in the middle of the Atlantic accepts an assignment to be embedded in a Vietnamese River Assault Group and more. Although Captain Gallagher left active duty in 1970 his memories of service are as vivid and compelling as a Tom Clancy novel-and better yet every word is true!