We had good interior communications (despite a shortage of talkers) over the sound-powered battle telephones, but because of indoctrination and training. little coordination between departments was necessary: officers and enlisted men assumed leadership, saw things that needed to be done and got about doing them without waiting to be told. This is not the best way to run a ship, but it is surprising how far the momentum of a well-trained outfit will carry when it leaders are cut down.
(from Neptune's Inferno, by James D. Hornfischer)
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