Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sub Hunters...
...honor to Navy's sub hunters. But honor, too, to Army men foresighted enough to have the very-long-range equipment ready when the going was hottest. Navy's land-based, long-range planes were taken over from Army's prescient purchases...
...land an invasion force on the shores of Mindanao, in the Philippines. Nor, apparently, does it care to concentrate on MacArthur's Southwest Pacific route. The Navy must secure bases in its rear as it moves. For the Pacific is dotted with unsinkable Jap airplane carriers and sub bases which cannot be left in the rear of an invading convoy. These island carrier-bases must be 1) neutralized or 2) taken...
...Stotesbury, the Joseph P. Kennedys, the Sumner Welleses, were at Palm Beach. Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague, with Mrs. Hague and daughter Peggy Anne, checked in at Miami Beach. So did the small-fry tourists, the race-track touts, the racketeers both gross and petty. The sub-urbane Town & Country told its readers that simply "everybody" came down before Christmas this year. Miami hotels, turned back to their owners by the Army, were booked solid all the way to the end of the winter season. There were as many ways to break rent ceilings as there are stucco...
Nine and a half hours after the fight first began, D for Donald found the sub awash, machine-gunned its conning tower as it sank out of sight...