"Going Home" watercolor by Georges Schreiber, 1943. "Going Home", that phrase sounds sweeter to a submarine man than the men of perhaps any other branch of the Navy. Fine-drawn and weary from weeks of patrolling enemy waters, with death often just around the corner, the submarine man and his ship both need rest and "overhauling" when their mission is concluded. A dark, pencil-like shadow under lowering skies, the Dorado (SS-248) skims along on the surface while the night hides her from enemy eyes. In September 1943, the USS Dorado (SS-248) took aboard two artists employed by the U.S. War Department, Thomas Hart Benton and Georges Schreiber to document the ship's cruise and preserve the images of a fleet boat at sea during wartime operations (although safely in U.S. waters most of the time). While underway Schreiber and Benton sketched, painted and interacted with the crew. They even got some excitement when the ship encountered a derelict vessel in...