If your looking for for the real musical stuff for those two or three years during the Pacific war it's not hard to find out what interested most all soldiers ,sailors.and airmen musically.
For one there was a very strong radio station in Hawaii that was pumping out music music music. FDR and dumb Hitler speeches were gathering dust next to all that swing. Apparently it was heard all the way over in Japan.Soon there were floating AFM stations aboard vessels that were flooding the whole South pacific with groove.
Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey,Benny Goodman,Lionel Hampton, The Andrew Sisters, Bing Crosby,The Bob Crosby Band,.it goes on and on.....
Do a little research yourself.Look at Armed Forces Pacific Entertainment 43 to 45.
We overran the Pacific with music during those times.
I'm sure there were many a guitar,uke,accordian clarinet,trumpet,trombone etc onboard, stashed somewhere on ships as well as subs.
Music was as important as war itself for most all soldiers, and sailors, and airmen during WWII, Korea, Vietnam (my war) and now in Iraq.
When those subs had some open water,and a clear sky, and no Japs in the vacinity chances are you would hear the music before you would see that Gato.
