Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...World War I's "Cinderella" has gone through a face lifting. There are two types for 1942: 1) a 110-ft. wood-hulled boat for inshore work, 2) a steel-hulled 173-footer for oceangoing. A third and larger one is in the making. These are the PCs...
...PCs are fast enough to catch their quarry, can wheel about on their heels to follow the squirmings of U-boats below the surface. Their main weapon is the depth charge, to open the enemy's steel-laced seams. They carry a medium-size foredeck gun, a battery of anti-aircraft machine guns...
Whether the PCs will prove effective will be shown this summer when a considerable number of PC units get to work. The men of the PC have firm faith; a lieutenant commander, veteran of the Battle of the Atlantic, audaciously predicted: "We'll turn off this Nazi submarine campaign like turning off a faucet...
...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...