Word: donahoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many U.S. submariners, who should know, look upon zigzagging generally as just a waste of time and fuel. During McVay's trial, Captain Glynn R. Donaho, submarine skipper with a long list of kills, told the court flatly that zigzagging is "of no value" in evasive action. In ten seconds, he said, he could correct for a target's change of course. The dubious protection that zigzagging gives a ship is offset by the fact that it allows slower-moving subs to keep...
...Buccaneers. Skipper of the Flying Fish is slim, quiet Commander Glynn Robert Donaho of Normangee, Tex. He remembers when the Flying Fish ran into an enemy task force close to shore. He scored hits on one ship and was taking a setup on a second when an aircraft bomb dropped close aboard. Things got so hot afterwards that one of the crew broke out all the candy in the stores, declaring, "We might as well eat it up now, we may never have another chance." But the Flying Fish survived, sank or damaged 100,000 tons of enemy shipping...
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