Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British guess was that the cruiser, recently torpedoed by an English sub, was being moved somewhere-probably into the Baltic-for dockyard repairs...
Behind the exploit was the patient labor of a tall, thirtyish, toothy assistant to U.S. High Commissioner Francis B. Sayre named Woodbury Willoughby. Willoughby gathered the treasure from Philippine banks, counted gold and silver, burned currency and securities after recording their serial numbers, then supervised its transfer to the sub...
Texas Aggies figure large on the roll of U.S. heroes in World War II. An Aggie "sighted sub, sank same." Another (Major General George F. Moore) directed the coastal defense at Corregidor. Aggies have won D.S.C.s like football games. Twenty-eight of them died on Bataan and Corregidor. The Aggies are proud of their military record. They like to recall the example of the Class of 1917, which held its commencement at a training camp, joined...
...Navy needed more destroyers, more sub chasers, more blimps, more of other craft that could be used to convoy coastal shipping until the subs were knocked out. Until it got them it could only stand by and watch traffic be hamstrung by overnight dashes into sheltered harbors, by limited convoys, by other makeshifts that sadly slowed the pulse of United Nations commerce...
...door canvassing, is designed to bring the bond and stamp drive directly before the attention of the college. "The canvassing plan proved unsuccessful because of the difficulty involved in finding volunteers who would carry on the work with the necessary diligence," stated Richard L. Hall '43, chairman of the sub-committee charged with the bond sales...