Cinderellas of the fleet . repre-sented by our tiny craft surely went deep. In what became known as American Ray we dro])i)ed our mud hooksand surveyed what we were informed was to be our base. It looked—well, peaceful. Simply an ancient olive grove. Visions of workingparties loomed large in the minds of the crew^s. \^isions sometimescome true, and this was one of the times. A few days later the Leonidas arrived with the rest of the chaserfleet, and work began. Work on the base, however, was not allowedto interfere with what we came there to do, namely, hunt subs, so thefollowing day, June 12,
Cinderellas of the fleet . repre-sented by our tiny craft surely went deep. In what became known as American Ray we dro])i)ed our mud hooksand surveyed what we were informed was to be our base. It looked—well, peaceful. Simply an ancient olive grove. Visions of workingparties loomed large in the minds of the crew^s. \^isions sometimescome true, and this was one of the times. A few days later the Leonidas arrived with the rest of the chaserfleet, and work began. Work on the base, however, was not allowedto interfere with what we came there to do, namely, hunt subs, so thefollowing day, June 12, twelve of us went to sea for our first barrage. To get a good idea of the strategic value of our field of endeavor,a glance at a chart of the Adriatic Sea will show its importance. Prac-tically all the submarines wdnich operated in the Mediterranean hadtheir bases on the Adriatic, at Durazzo, Cataro, Pola, etc., and, ofcourse, in order to go out from and to return to these bases, had to r 98 THE CIXDERELLAS OF THE FLEET. ^<\^^
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