| Entry Text: | JOHNSON, Rody. Different Battles: The Search for a World War II Hero. 205p. Kansas City: Sunflower UP, 1999. ISBN: 0897452364.
U 333, commanded by Peter Cremer, torpedoed the US tanker Java Arrow off the Florida coast in May 1942. The tanker crew was rescued by the author's father, Kit Johnson, a Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteer, in his fishing boat. This incident is the basis for a story about Cremer and Johnson in war and in old age. The author visited Cremer in Germany and maintained a close association with him until Cremer's death in 1992. |
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