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Destroyer
squadron, floating around a harbor buoy. It is easy to see that when the
destroyers are in formation, lined up four abreast, line-of-sight radio
communications could be difficult. In this case, the Commodore would be
making split-second tactical radio commands from the right-hand ship DD852
and expecting the Captain of our DD869 on the extreme left to act on his
commands at once. Failure to do so got our captain in trouble and changed
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