Bob Bomar

"We flew one fighter and one torpedo bomber together in groups, in other words, each one would take a section and fly -- one would fly a 30 degree section and another group would fly another 30 degree section.  And then we had fighters lined up on the catapult ready to go and pilots in the airplane so that if you hit a submarine and you'd call in and then they would launch a fighter group and a torpedo group too to help in destroying the submarine if you didn't get down before you got him.........They would launch -- they would bring the destroyers out and try to locate them with the destroyers and sometimes the destroyers would locate them and they would drop depth bombs and get them, but most of the time if you were alert they didn't get away because we'd spot them.  Just as soon as we'd spot them we would take the fighters and go straight for them and start strafing, steel-jacketed bullets was what they had and when those bullets would hit the deck of the submarines it would peel the skin of the submarine off and flying metal would be just as bad as the bullets. "