Christmas Island, 1942: Mutiny, a Broken Torpedo, and a Battle Fought Underwater.

On March 31, 1942, a Japanese invasion force found Christmas Island's defenses already gone — its 32-man garrison wiped out three weeks earlier by their own mutinying soldiers. The real fight happened underwater, where USS Seawolf, under Lieutenant Commander Fred Warder, took on Rear Admiral Shōji Nishimura's three-cruiser, eight-destroyer task force alone, firing nine torpedoes across thirty-three hours against the U.S. Navy's own defective Mark 14 design. Dale and Christophe untangle the mutiny, the court-martial that followed India and Pakistan's independence by mere months, and the submarine duel history mostly forgot.