![]() ![]() All of the accused are free to continue their military careers. ![]() Greenwald ends the toast by throwing his champagne in Keefer’s face, exposing him as the true source of blame for the mutiny. He says it was the Queegs of the regular Navy who saved his Jewish grandmother. Clemson, lost at sea on December 8, 1846, during the Mexican war, when the brig USS Somers capsized off Veracruz in a sudden squall while chasing a blockade runner. The Clemson class was named for Midshipman Henry A. USS Caine is a fictional depiction of a Clemson-class DMS (destroyer-minesweeper) conversion. Wouk was an established writer by the time of Pearl Harbor. Wouk’s fictional revolt rings true because he was writing from intimate firsthand experience during World War II with the conditions, ships, and character types he portrays. Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny may be the greatest American novel of World War II.
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