Fall Asleep as a WWII Radio Operator Crossing the Atlantic

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Tonight, you leave the harbor behind and step into the warm glow of a merchant ship's radio room as you cross the Atlantic during World War II.

Surrounded by vacuum tubes, logbooks, and the endless whisper of static, your job is simple but vital. You listen. Through long watches beneath blackout skies, through fog banks that swallow the horizon, and through storms that shake the steel hull beneath your feet, messages drift across the darkness from distant ships...