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Hugh

Posted 2008-12-07 1:15 AM (#22283)

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Location: Hillsboro, OR

Subject: 67 years ago today

"Execute unrestricted air and submarine warfare against Japan."
- Admiral R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations in Washington December 1941.

During World War II, submarines comprised less than two percent of the U.S. Navy, but sank more than 30 percent of Japan's navy, including eight aircraft carriers. More important, American submarines contributed to the indirect decapitation of the Japanese economy by sinking almost five million tons of shipping — more than 60 percent of the Japanese merchant marine.

nancy

Posted 2008-12-07 12:39 PM (#22310 - in reply to #22283)

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Location: Medina, OH

Subject: RE: 67 years ago today

"We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds." -- Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, USN.

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