Badoeng Strait (CVE 116) - Naval Cruise Book

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Periscope on the starboard beam! With this dreaded word from the lookout, spontaneous activity commences. The task group immeditately speeds up and makes a mm away from the deadly killer before he can center the ship in his sights and send some lethal torpedoes on the way Helos are launched to hold the contact as DD ' s take off from their screen stations to pound the sub w ith depth charges. N

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The crews quickly scurry from the safety of their catwalk stations and begin refueling, arming and checking the plane for its next flight. Meanwhile the pilots and crew settle down once again in the comfortable readyroom tor a debrief- ing of their last mission.

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Then once again the telltale bubbles and debris and debris signify another underwater killer has met his fate. With the engine room answering the signal for normal speed sunt down from the bridge, normaliq returns once again to the ship. w The formation assumes its former tranquility and the search planes are recovered and the pilots climb