There is no excuse for an aircraft carrier being sunk either by gunfire or submarine attack, and any carrier so sunk was poorly operated at the time.
So wrote Annapolis-trained, 34-year-old Lieut. Commander John Austin Collett, naval aviator, in the current issue of the United States Naval Proceedings. In the traditionally closemouthed Navy a young officer may speak his piece if it is technically sound.
The U.S. has lost a carrier to submarine attack: in Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley's command in the South Pacific the Wasp was nailed by a Japanese submarine off the Solomons. To submarines or gunfire the...
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