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...earlier, eight-day engagement, planes of the U.S. Navy, the R.A.F. and the Canadian Air Force sank six subs, attacked nine others. Not one sub got close enough to fire a torpedo...
...sub hunters flew alone, and they flew far: sometimes 1,250 miles out over the Atlantic. Said Colonel Roberts: "These boys took an awful beating. They averaged twelve or 15 hours of flying every three days. The bombers average about seven. . . . Just try locking yourself in a closet for 15 hours with somebody giving you a sandwich once in a while and you'll have a pretty good idea of what it was like...
...turret gunner fired directly into the conning tower of the sub, killing its anti-aircraft gunners. The bombardier released his depth charges, which straddled the sub, sinking it in half a minute. The survivors, stunned by the swift attack, were picked up later by a destroyer...
...plane (C-87) made the first round-trip run in twelve days. Outboard, it carried 8,300 lb. of fuel pumps, starters, magnetos and other critical replacements for the China-Burma-India theater. The return load was mainly damaged parts for rush repairs at the 300-odd depots and sub-depots...
This week 36-year-old Mush Morton and the Wahoo were safe in history. The Sub Base had given up looking for them over the grey waters of Pearl Harbor. Under the Wahoo's name the Navy wrote the submariner's grim epitaph: "Overdue, must be presumed to be lost...