Small Boats and the Yom Kippur War

Vice Admiral Rod Rempt, 59th Superintendent, recounts his first command, USS Antelope (PG-86) as Soviet-US tensions rose in the eastern Mediterranean during the Yom Kippur War of 1973.

Show Notes

This episode mentions a 2004 article in the Naval War College Review by Lyle Goldstein and Yuri Zhukov,  "A Tale of Two Fleets—A Russian Perspective on the 1973 Naval Standoff in the Mediterranean."  That article is available here.

Lyle Goldstein can be found on Twitter @lylegoldstein

 

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A naval history podcast from Preble Hall - the United States Naval Academy Museum in Annapolis, Maryland. Preble Hall will interview historians, practitioners, military personnel, and other experts on a variety of naval history topics from ancient history to recent history.