Word: pc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last jobs in the Mediterranean was to serve as a beacon for the landing in Sicily. We had, as a kind of escort, a PC-boat. The Germans started to dive-bomb us, and old PC turned out to be a very enthusiastic man with his guns. He put up a very fine barrage...
Also lost in other U.S. naval operations: in the Mediterranean, the submarine chaser PC 496 and the salvage vessel Redwing. Off the North Carolina coast, the gunboat Plymouth. Presumably in the Pacific, the submarine Pickerel...
Navy records call her PC-487. Navy men call her "The Little Fellow," and say it with affectionate pride. Like dozens of her sisters who do the monotonous patrol work of the war at sea. PC-487 is a modest, unspectacular little warship, about 170 ft. long, of 600 tons displacement. Her commander is a reserve lieutenant, chubby, ruddy W. Gordon Cornell, a Staten Islander...
...medium foggy morning, somewhere in the Pacific, PC-487 was dutifully sheep-dogging along on the outskirts of a convoy. Her sound detectors picked up a strange craft and she headed for that spot...
...Drove to Washington Navy Yard and presented to the exiled Greek Government under Lend-Lease, a PC-622 submarine chaser (christened King George...