Hellcats (44 page)

 

 

1
Blair, Clay, Jr.,
Silent Victory
, Lippincott, 1975, Vol. 2, p. 851 (Hereafter, Blair); and Roscoe, Theodore,
United States Submarine Operations in World War II
, United States Naval Institute, 1949, pp. 491-92. (Hereafter, Roscoe.)

1
Telegram to Sarah S. Edge from U.S. Navy Bureau of Naval Personnel. Sarah Edge Shuler and Lawrence L. Edge Jr. (Hereafter, Edge family.)

2
Lawrence L. Edge to Sarah S. Edge. Edge family.

3
Ibid.

4
Ibid.

1
Some sixty years later the plane's wreckage reappeared after heavy rains washed away the covering soil.

2
Blair, p. 341.

1
Roscoe, p. 240.

2
The
Squalus
flooded and sank in waters off the coast of New Hampshire on May 23, 1939, with the loss of twenty-six men. She was raised, overhauled, and re-commissioned as the
Sailfish
on May 15, 1940.

3
Top-secret war patrol report of the USS
Lapon
(SS-260).

4
Top-secret war patrol report of the USS
Narwhal
(SS-167).

5
Top secret war patrol report of the USS
Sawfish
(SS-270).

6
Article included in a report submitted by Lockwood to Nimitz concerning the loss of the USS
Wahoo
(SS-238). Article and report attached to war patrol report of the
Wahoo
.

7
Lockwood, Charles A., and Hans C. Adamson,
Hellcats of the Sea
, New York: Greenburg, 1951, p. 2. (Hereafter, Lockwood,
HOS
.)

8
O'Kane, Richard H.,
Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous WWII Submarine
, Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1987, p. 329.

9
Lockwood,
HOS
, p. 22.

1
Roscoe, p. 531.

2
Lawrence L. Edge to Sarah S. Edge. Edge family.

3
Ibid.

4
Top secret war patrol report of the USS
Bonefish
(SS-223).

5
Ibid.

1
FM Sonar, Model 1, Nos. 11-15, Preliminary Instruction Book, Operation and Maintenance. Unclassified. May 12, 1945 [Rpt. R223.4], Box 1. University of California Division of War Research at the U.S. Navy Radio and Sound Laboratory, San Diego, California. Courtesy of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California. (Hereafter, UCDWR.)

2
“FM Sonar,” by M. C. Henderson and Charles A. Hisserich. Unclassified. September 4, 1943, Box 2. The conceptual basis for using FM sonar to locate mines underwater. UCDWR.

3
Lockwood,
HOS
, p. 38.

4
Lockwood,
HOS
, p. 42.

5
Sources concerning this meeting are at variance as to the actual date as well as the participants. King may have arrived in Pearl Harbor on or about July 12 or 13. He then departed on an inspection trip with Nimitz and other Pacific commanders (there is no mention of Lockwood), minus MacArthur, to the Marianas. After this tour King apparently returned to Washington before Roosevelt's arrival in Honolulu on July 26. Yet according to Lockwood, his meeting with King and Nimitz took place on July 26, five days
after
King's departure and the day of Roosevelt's arrival.

1
Top-secret war patrol report of the USS
Bonefish
.

2
Ibid.

3
Ibid.

4
Ibid.

5
Copy of original Navy message to
Bonefish
from ComTwelve. Edge family.

1
Top-secret prospectus for Operation Barney; Lockwood to Nimitz and King, December 3, 1944, “Japan Sea—Patrol of.” National Archives II (NARA II), Modern Military Records, College Park, MD. RG 313. 5.3 Records of Naval Operating Forces, including those of Operation Barney. Courtesy of Steven Trent Smith.

2
Lockwood had waived the ironclad rule that subs on patrol never, ever broadcast when operating in an area where Japanese radio-direction-finding stations could triangulate their position. In practice the rule was often violated whenever submarine skippers sent contact reports concerning enemy convoys, task forces, and other important information to ComSubPac and to other submarines that, if patrolling nearby, could provide more information or join in an attack.