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America was at war, and many a seagoing vessel got called to duty, like the rickety Merchant Marine freighter whose crew serves with distinction, destroying Nazi bombers and U-boats in a rousing adventure adapted from a Saturday Evening Post story by future Red River and Winchester '73 screenwriter Borden Chase. And what a crew! Deploying for hazardous action are gunnery commander Pat O'Brien, seaman George Murphy (a disgraced former of