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Another sinking proved to the Navy's satisfaction that fifth columnists ashore were keeping in touch with U-boat crews. After the sinking of their small merchant ship; two crew members were picked up by a submarine, later released. The sailors found that the sub's commander knew about their port of departure, cargo and destination...
...most notable individual submarine foe was tight-lipped Donald Francis Mason, 28-year-old Navy enlisted pilot, who two months ago sent the now-famed message: "Sighted sub, sank same" (TIME...
Upped to chief petty officer and decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross, Donald Mason repeated the performance: a neat straddle on a surfaced sub that blew it to bits. Last week he got a Silver Star, equivalent of another D.F.C. He also made the biggest leap in a Navy man's career. He was commissioned an ensign, went out to prowl for more subs, more promotion...
...patrol boats, the 110-foot (wood) and 170-foot (steel) sub chasers which are now building in profusion in U.S. small boatyards. They are being made on the shores of the Great Lakes, along the New England coast and even in landlocked inland States. Their production rate is a satisfactory military secret...
...Navy men, are worthy descendants of the "Cinderella" boats of World War I, the sub chasers who were not invited to the ball, but who proved to be the belles when they arrived. (Of the 456 sub chasers built in the U.S. in the last war, not a single one was sunk by enemy submarines, whereas the Cinderellas had the highest record of sub sinkings of any surface craft...