Word: pc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only answer to the problem is escort ships-small subchasers (PC boats) in coastal work; fast-stepping, death-dealing destroyers and newly designed, highly efficient destroyer escorts (DEs), U.S. counterpart for Britain's corvettes, in transatlantic convoy. But the program as a whole is late. The destroyer-escort situation is worst, since only a handful have been delivered. As a result a single destroyer often convoys 15 hapless merchantmen across the Atlantic v. the ideal setup, which would be closer to one escort for every three freighters...
...Builders. The huge destroyer program is being handled by veteran naval shipbuilders like Bethlehem, Federal (U.S. Steel subsidiary) and Maine's crackerjack Bath Iron Works. Most PC subchaser contracts are held by inland builders like Dravo Corp. in Pittsburgh (where fighting ships are being built for the first time since the War of 1812), and Michigan's DeFoe Shipbuilding. To swing the new & vital destroyer-escort program the Navy picked Bethlehem Steel's reliable yard at Hingham, Mass., and Brown Shipbuilding, a new yard at Houston...
From his car Franklin Roosevelt, with a sailor's appreciative eye, took in the trim new subchaser PC-467, snugged tidily to the wharf, her brightwork glistening in the hot September sun. Radio technicians placed a battery of microphones across his lap. Said the President of the U.S. to the Crown Princess of Norway and the people of the world...
...stars & stripes fluttered down from the stern of the PC-467; the U.S. crew marched briskly off. To their places stepped a new crew of Norwegians in neat, blue-trimmed white uniforms. The Navy band struck up the Norwegian national anthem, Ja, Vi Elsker Dette Landet (Yes, We Love This Land of Ours). Sailors hoisted the blue cross of Norway, pulled a bunting from the ship's new name board: King Haakon...
Newly in charge of the new Gulf sea frontier, faced with the onerous job of squashing Axis subs, is Rear Admiral James Laurence Kauffman, transferred from the Iceland Naval Base. Commandant of the PC training center is Lieut. Commander Eugene F. McDaniel. He preaches each week to recruits to instill them with what he calls "the PC religion." After one such lecture two men, spokesmen for 150 who had been on ships sunk by the Japs, tagged him to his office. They wanted to pledge him 100% cooperation, they said. They were in tears...