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What Price Success? COMINCH Ernest J. King is on record as saying that the Japs are improving their antisubmarine devices, but this fact does not mean that the Japs have licked U.S. subs as the Allies have licked German U-boats. Other factors tending to increase sub losses: 1) a big increase in the number of U.S. submarines (many of them new) now operating in the Pacific; 2) shorter Jap sealanes, as the Japs are driven back, which means the Japs can provide better antisub protection; 3) apparently more & more dangerous missions undertaken by U.S. subs...
While operating out of Queenstown, protecting conveys and individual ships, with the aid of the destroyer "Fanning," Captain Barker's ship captured the German submarine U-58. The two ships then drove an attacking sub from the "J. L. Luckenbach...
Since early in the war Nazi leaders have spared no effort to keep that morale high. U-boat crews have been treated like the supermen of the super race. When a sub comes in from a long cruise it is met at its base by a brass band, cheering dockworkers, flower-throwing civilians and a quayside loaded with the handsomest girls obtainable, primed to give their all for the returning heroes...
...story of "Follow the Girls" is something about a stage-door, canteen and three Navy huddles and their attempt to get one of their number married to a girl who is engaged to an unpopular chief petty officer. There is also somewhat of a sub-plot concerning spies at the Navy Yard, a pure young girl and an ensign...
...Life. In San Francisco, Elmer Dale Cox, unable to find a place to live, was discovered, surrounded by food and a cookstove, in the sub-basement of the house of R. Gwin Follis. Cox explained he had moved in several weeks before when Follis wasn't looking...