U.S. Steps Up Defence Against Submarines
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. Tne Navy today announced the beginning of a sharply stepped-up antisubmarine training programme to meet “revolutionary developments” in under-water warfare. t Mr. John Sullivan, Secretary of the Navy, disclosed that nine combat ships a light aircraft-carrier and eight destroyers will be recommissioned in a defence measure aimed at meeting the threat of submarines swifter and with longer underwater range than the U-boats of the last war. The announcement said that to release money and men for anti-sub-marine training the battleship lowa will be retired about September 1. This will leave the United States with the battleship Missouri as the only active battleship in the fleet, but it was added that the lowa and 13 other battleships now in reserve will "be ready for recommissioning on short notice.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22727, 27 August 1948, Page 5
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