Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Graduating Naval Science students, who will be commissioned on Commencement Day, have already received orders, assigning them to report for jobs ranging from cruiser duty to sub chaser school...
Reasons for the new system include the reduction of the civilian student body to about 1,000 men, mostly sub-draft Freshmen plus a large number of 4-Fs; a determination not to use the railroads at all; and the fact that there will be a one-week vacation, preceded by reading period and exams, coming right in the middle of the season...
...ships. The U.S., habitually mum on the subject of U-boat sinkings, last week revealed for the first time the capture of a submarine contingent: the Coast Guard cutter Icarus last June depth-charged a U-boat, blew it to the surface, rescued 33 of the crew. The shattered sub sank into the depths which German underseamen call "God's Cellar...
Flying Officer Brant Howell of Manitoba turned his Sunderland from a probable "kill" to attack a surfaced sub with his guns. The sub's deck gun fired back, When the U-boat crash-dived, Howell saw the abandoned Nazi gun crew floundering in the sea. They soon had their submarine for company. Reported Howell: "Four depth charges exploded within a few feet of the stern and the last we saw of the U-boat was six feet of the afterpart sticking out almost vertically from the water...
...account might have added that the gun crew, volunteers all and, according to U.S. Navy tradition, messmen, had emptied the entire contents of their "ready box" (32 shells) into the sub in one minute. Exclaimed a Coast Guard officer: "Those boys are one of the best gun crews you ever...