USS Chopper (SS-342) - Fiction

Fiction

In his book The Hunt for Red October, author Tom Clancy mentions the misfortune of Chopper in 1969 while discussing the fate of the fictional Soviet Alfa-class fast-attack sub E.S. Politovskiy.

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