Word: ingram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reported Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, U.S. Atlantic Fleet commander: since 1941 the U.S. sub hunt had covered 30,000,000 square miles of ocean to fight a maximum German fleet of 450 submarines. The German attack peak was in 1942-43, but by spring of 1943 the defense had its fo'c'sle head above water. By V-E day the U.S. had 126 sure submarine kills and had escorted 16,760 ships across the Atlantic...
Meanwhile, citizens along the Atlantic coast, who had been warned by Admiral Jonas H. Ingram to watch out for V-1 (TIME, Jan. 22), got a few official tips on V-protection. London guessed that U-boats equipped with launching platforms might carry and launch four or five V-1's apiece. The best defense, once the robombs are launched, is probably alert spotting and pursuit by fighter planes. (Against this defense, V-1 is usually camouflaged with dark green paint on top, light blue underneath.) A Washington rocket expert of the Army Air Forces calculated that within...
Where could the robombs come from? Admiral Ingram replied: from submarine, long-range plane or surface ship...
Many a thoughtful resident of Washington and New York City, designated by Admiral Ingram as the most likely targets, was inclined to take him seriously. So was the London Daily Express, which advised that the Germans would do it for "malice and vanity," as well as to help the Japanese. But an anonymous spokesman for the Navy Department in Washington countered with this equivocal statement...
...Ingram was not impressed. Few days later he repeated his warning over the Blue Network on the MARCH OF TIME program. He sounded like a man who thought he knew what he was talking about...