Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PCs are patrol boats, the 110-foot (wood) and 170-foot (steel) sub chasers which are now building in profusion in U.S. small boatyards. They are being made on the shores of the Great Lakes, along the New England coast and even in landlocked inland States. Their production rate is a satisfactory military secret...
...PCs, say Navy men, are worthy descendants of the "Cinderella" boats of World War I, the sub chasers who were not invited to the ball, but who proved to be the belles when they arrived. (Of the 456 sub chasers built in the U.S. in the last war, not a single one was sunk by enemy submarines, whereas the Cinderellas had the highest record of sub sinkings of any surface craft...
...Modern PCs have greater speed and maneuverability than World War I Cinderellas, have a rapid-fire gunpower that no sub can match in a surface duel...