Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prize question of the week concerned a submarine which carried an airplane would the airplane pilot get both aviation and sub...
...Lookout duty, once a punishment, is now so important that the men get extra privileges. All day the submarine on war patrol waits and watches at its undersurface station, hoping for a target. At night it sidles off to surface and charge its batteries. Wallowing at "slow ahead," a sub is doubly vulnerable in the dark. Quick-eyed night lookouts are prized...
Once admitted to this select company, a submariner rarely leaves voluntarily (though he may if he likes). He must be pushed out by age (40 is old) or disability or promotion. Many a sub captain (usually a lieutenant commander) regrets the third full stripe which costs him his ship and sends him to a more comfortable billet afloat or ashore...
They Like the Life, There is no spit & polish for men on a sub. At sea the bluejackets wear what they please, usually dungarees, sometimes only skivies and sandals. Officers shuck their neckties and open their shirt collars. Everybody smokes almost everywhere. There is an old-shoe ease about the whole ship's company, but there is no infringement of dignity or discipline...
...Lady Haw-Haw who broadcasts in Eng lish on Radio Tokyo. One U.S. sub crew which had just sunk two Jap transports' liked her pro gram the night they left for home. Said Tokyo Rose:"You build 'em, we sink...