Edward GilfillenEd was a World Two Navy Surface Line Officer sent to Occupation-era Japan as part of the Naval Technical Group, an intelligence operation intended to winnow through the wreckage of the Imperial war machine for items of use to the growing threat of th Cold War. While in the former IJN port of Ykokosuka, his shipboard skills made him suitable for a special assignment more important than the secret operation to uncover Japanese secrets: steam the last Japanese battleship to Eniwetok, 2,175 miles from Yokosuka and prepare the ship for the Atomic tests of Operation CROSSROADS. The voyage is a rollicking sea story, since the skeleton Yankee crew could not read the operating manuals, all in Japanese, and the ABLE and BAKER detonations, highly classified, were also what Ed called FUBAR. He died young, in 1978, a possible victim of the same exposure suffered by thousands of young sailors. His story is appropriate today, and the threat of nuclear employment has made our present time termed as the most dangerous since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Read More Read Less