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Ken W. Sayers is a former Navy officer who served on board a Pacific Fleet destroyer escort and on the staff of the assistant secretary of defense (public affairs). Sayers retired from IBM in 2007 and now writes about naval history and ships, and enjoys cruising on his boat in Long Island Sound.
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