For the officers playing as escort commanders behind the canvas peepholes the games were keenly intense. From his position behind the canvas sheet, the lieutenant would survey the ocean floor, then report back to his CO, who sat at a plotting table behind the screen, as though he was working in the charthouse up on his ship’s bridge. As well as listening to the situation report from his lieutenant, the senior officer would receive constant new information from his assigned Wren, designed to mimic the flow of information arriving from the ship’s ASDIC radar operator. ‘Star shell fired here,’
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