It’s interesting to know the Icelanders still cook cheeseburgers which are unpalatably rare. That’s the way their cooks made them in the chow hall when I was at Keflavik Naval Station in 1975 and ‘76.

On the other hand, the cod was uncommonly good. Typically, it had been in the sea less than 24 hours ago. The Icelanders knew how to bake, lightly fry, or prepare it other ways to perfection.

It wasn’t just the cod fishing that was good. Our P-3 patrol planes tracked Soviet ballistic missile submarines transiting between their base at Polyarny and their patrol areas a couple hundred miles off the US east coast. Iceland is astride their main highways. So that kind of fishing was pretty good, too.