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Originally Posted by Benti
Were the subs actually part of rescueing and bringing the pilots and crew back to allied controled areas?
benti
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Fleet boats did Lifeguard duty not only around Japan. They did id almost everywhere in the PTO. The job was called "The Submarine Lifeguard League.
There is also a memorial in Pensacola for those Fleet boats involved in the Lifeguard League.
Statistics document that during the Lifeguard League's period of operation, eighty-eight American submarines made one hundred and four war patrols during which air-sea rescue operations resulting in the recovery of aviation personnel were conducted. A total of five hundred and twenty-one aviators were rescued: two hundred and forty-one from the U. S. Navy, two hundred and fifty-nine from the U. S. Army Air Forces, five from the U. S. Marine Corps, and sixteen from the Royal Navy.
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http://www.subsowespac.org/the-patro...d-league.shtml