Word: antisub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trespassers in U.S. waters have become so scarce that the Navy is pulling down its picket fence. In the first broad demobilization of equipment since the war began, more than half the 2,200 fishing and pleasure craft converted for emergency antisub patrol early in the war have now been returned to their private owners...
Sirs: That the Army's 480th Anti-Submarine Group did a commendable job [TIME, Dec. 20] we in the Navy's antisub squadrons readily admit. But to say that the Army "was on the job when the going was hottest" and that the Navy took over after Admiral Doenitz' protégés had been thwarted, is a very untrue implication...
Naval Reserve Lieut. Eddy Duchin, peacetime bandleader and silk-smooth jazz pianist, was made an antisub warfare officer aboard a vessel of the destroyer escort fleet. One of his jobs: analyzing the unmusical notes produced by a subdetector...
...other pilots, reached their target and gave the Japs a nasty surprise. From Henderson Field at dawn, four more SBDs took off on search flights, Weary leading one section, Purdum the other. They sighted five destroyers just out of range for dive-bombing attack. Other pilots took off for antisub patrol off Tulagi, to smoke out Jap land positions on northwest Guadal, to search for some lost pilots...