Dead Man Launch by John J. Gobbell

A CODE FOR TOMORROW

Todd Ingram Adventures, Book 2

Severn River Publications, LLC

In A CODE FOR TOMORROW, Navy Lieutenant Todd Ingram escaped the horrors of Corregidor. Now, in San Francisco, he agonizes over Helen Durand, the Army nurse he left behind, fighting for the resistance on Mindanao. Todd Ingram is befriended by Senior Lieutenant Eduard Dezhnev, the Soviet Naval attache’ to the USSR’s consulate there. Read More…

What Readers are Saying:

★★★★★ The author deftly keeps the action and plot moving at a brisk pace with increasing interest in the characters. The relationship between Todd and Helen continues to develop adding a welcome romantic dimension to balance the gritty drumbeat of war.
★★★★★ Well written and good tale of people a who are normal and ordinary in some aspects but brave and overcome their fears when it mattered most.
★★★★★ BRAVO ZULU to Mr. Gobbell, I cant wait to get started on the next one. I could not put this book down, if I woke up in the middle of the night I would read for an hour. Lately I have gotten more reading in at night than sleep !! Keep them coming John, it makes me feel I am with them on the ship and on the beach.

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Chart-4-Mindanao
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Lavrenti Beria, in a latter 1930s photos as he vacationed with Josef Stalin on the Black Sea. Beria was one of the most dangerous people in the world. Stalin had just promoted him to Commissar of State Security, NKVD Narodnyi Kommissariat Vnutrennikh Del
Destroyer USS Smith (DD 378) after the Battle of the St. Cruz Islands. Note damage after Japanese divebomber crashed on foredeck.
This was the Soviet's view San Francisco Bay when they stood in front of their consulate near the top of Divisidero Street.
Another view of the carrier Hornet, now mortally wounded, lying dead in the water. The Destroyer USS Russell (DD 414) lays under her starboard bow taking off her pilots and crew.
Mid-1930's photo of the Soviet Slave ship Dzhurma, one of six used to carry Soviet prisoners to the arctic for forced labor from which many did not return. 6908 tons, 402 feet length, 58 foot beam, three decks; One triple expansion steam engine delivers 10.5 knots top speed.
William F. Halsey, Vice Admiral, (later Fleet Admiral) USN
USS Hornet (CV 8) under attack at the Battle of the St. Cruz Islands
The US Navy sustained enormous losses, including the sinking of the fleet carriers Wasp and Hornet, to ensure Marines like these, could take Guadalcanal
An early photo of the drawing room of the Pope Suite in the Saint Francis Hotel (Courtesy St. Francis Hotel)
Near the top of Divisidero Street in San Francisco, this building was the Soviet Consulate in World War II. After the war, the Soviets were evicted because they would not allow a U.S. consulate in Vladivostok. (Photo by Richard Heilman)
Raymond A. Spruance, Rear Admiral (later Admiral), USN
USS Tingey (DD 539), a typical Fletcher class destroyer, re-fuels at Midway Island in 1962. USS Watts (DD 567) is inboard. (Photo by John Samuelson)
Japanese Type 93 torpedo of World War II. Compare its size to the lamppost.
Japanese Naval aircraft preparing to take off at the Battle of the St. Cruz Islands..