Taylor, Samuel W. (1907-1997) "The Expert"

World War 2 American Magazine “storiette.” Two Murmansk Run ship sinking survivors find themselves aboard a small life raft off the coast of Norway with no food. While one uselessly pontificates on this thing and that, the other’s quick thinking provocation of a circling German bomber results in a food bonanza which keeps the duo well-fed until a passing convoy rescues them. His brilliant idea? Well, upon spotting the bomber he makes a series of “gestures of insulting nature, in the sign language current in every port.” The result: bombs are dropped on the life raft, and all fall into the sea (the raft is too small a target for the German to hit). And up from the sea come masses of bomb-stunned and dead fish – Norwegian sushi, as it were.