Captured Same (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Bill Palmer]

I agree as to it being Donald Mason.  Somewhere, I read that he was a first
class petty officer.  At that time, the Navy still had some enlisted pilots,
altho they were being phased out.

Bill Palmer

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>> >>
>> >> The report was from a US Navy plane, I believe.  Whether the sub
> was
>> >> actually sunk is open to question.
>> >>
>> >> On a TV show, sometime in the 1950's, maybe it was "I've Got a
> Secret", the
>> >> originator of the communication was the guest. (It was time when
> WWII vets
>> >> were no older than, say, Gulf War vets today). He explained that,
>> for a reason I don't recall, communications such as the one in
> question were, for
>> >> that particular operation, to be phrased so that the initial letter
> of each
>> >> word was to be the same...hence the alliteration.
>> >>
>> >> Bill Palmer
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> Apparently the originator was Ensign Donald F. Mason of Rochester New
> York (per Dallas Morning News, 6/25/1942 p 3)
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