At the court martial held at Naval Station Treasure Island in San Francisco, the date of the mutiny is given as "July 22, 1944", which is not possible for several reasons. First, the only storm in the Pacific on that date was Tropical Storm Peggy, which took place in the South China Sea west of the Philippines with maximum winds of no greater than 40 mph. Second, the typhoon in the film took place immediately after Maryk, Keefer and Keith had gone to Adm. Halsey's flagship to personally present their complaints to the Admiral. At that time, however, Halsey was in Washington, DC, meeting with Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and the Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Ernest J. King to plan future operations in the Pacific Theater. Halsey did not return to the Pacific until July 27, when he arrived in Hawaii from the US and met with President Frankilin D. Roosevelt, CINPAC Adm. Chester W. Nimitz and Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur (I) that day. In the Herman Wouk novel, the date of the mutiny is given as December 18, 1944, which would have been historically correct as that is the same day the three US Navy destroyers in Halsey's fleet (the Third Fleet) were lost in Typhoon Cora (aka "Typhoon Halsey"). During the Maryk trial it is also mentioned that three ships had foundered in the typhoon on the same day as the mutiny on the USS Caine.

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L'ammutinamento del Caine (1954)

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