When L. Ron Hubbard, the future founder of Scientology, took command of a U.S. Navy vessel during World War II, chaos quickly followed. In May 1943, he was placed in charge of the USS PC-815, a small submarine chaser stationed off the Oregon coast. Hubbard was ambitious but inexperienced. Within days, he became convinced that his ship had detected an enemy submarine moving beneath the surface. What followed became one of the strangest naval encounters of the entire war. For nearly 68 hours, Hubb

HMS Chaser was an American-built Attacker-class escort carrier of the Royal Navy, commissioned in April 1943 under the Lend-Lease agreement after being built as the US freighter MORMACGULF and initially intended to be the USS Breton. The carrier spent most of her service escorting Arctic convoys, where her aircraft played a crucial role in anti-submarine warfare and helped sink German U-boats. In March 1945, she transferred to the British Pacific Fleet, serving with the Fleet Train to provide ai