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TOTAL IMMERSION

Source: Bob Maloubier emerging from the water after a dive, a Fifty Fathoms on his wrist, circa 1950s.

In his twilight years, a second world war hero who once walked nine miles to safety with severe bullet wounds to his intestines and lungs — a man who took part in a string of Reapergoading missions as a weapons trainer and saboteur, parachuted twice into occupied France, bombed German naval vessels, and helped stockpile weapons in preparation for D-Day — would tell people that he was a former accountant who’d retired at 66.

Bob Maloubier’s aloofness about heroics that saw him cited three times for the War Cross between 1939 and 1945, and receive a Distinguished Service Order in 1945, had nothing to do with fending off dark, Proustian infiltrations into his consciousness: he would later describe his years in German-occupied France

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