They asked the dying Pasco County man about his Navy service a
half-century before. He kept talking about the steel barrels. They
haunted him, sea monsters plaguing an old sailor.
"We turned off all the lights," George Albernaz testified at a 2005
Department of Veterans Affairs hearing, "and … pretend that we were
broken down and … we would take these barrels and having only steel-toed
shoes … no protection gear, and proceed to roll these barrels into the
ocean, 300 barrels at a trip."
Not all of them sank. A few pushed back against the frothing ocean,
bobbing in the waves like a drowning man. Then shots would ring out from
a sailor with a rifle at the fantail. And the sea would claim the
bullet-riddled drum.
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