id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt uc1.b4450139 Zhdanov, Aleksandr I., submarine commander. Shadow of peril Aleksandr I. Zhdanov 1963 .txt text/plain 83148 5314 73 2. At this point, the W-7 intercepted two American destroyers and followed them to a rendezvous with major units of the Sixth Fleet. 3. Piraeus Harbor, near Athens, Greece, where U.S. fleet units rendezvoused under the watchful eye of the Soviet sub. This would be important in case of an action against a submarine, since the destroyer would want to know what the sonar detection possibilities This was the day that we departed the Beirut area, westwardbound for surveillance of the major Sixth Fleet units under command of the American Vice Admiral Charles R. used in World War II against the German U-boats (so much inferior, of course, to the present-day Soviet submarines). very fact that the Soviet submarine W-7 had been able to operate at such close quarters to the American fleet, and had remained in such proximity undetected for so long, was ample ./cache/uc1.b4450139.pdf ./txt/uc1.b4450139.txt