Lockwoods book has a mention of it but thats all I have.
I couldnt find it on Nav weaps either.
In Sink em all Adm. Lockwood writes.......
"While at pearl on the 19th, I took advantaqge of the opportunity
to see test runs of a secret decoy intended to aid submarines in evading counterattacks by escort vessels. Skate and the destroyer escort Whitman
put on the show and, after the submarine had acquired the technique,
she succeeded in eluding the DE in both of the final runs. This was a
gadget that I had first seen operating in a fresh water reservoir in
August,1944 abd fir which we had been preaying ever since. Its use
in enemy waters might have saved the sives of hundreds of submariners
and millions of dollars worth of submarines."
is Skates log available online somewhere? Ive lost my research links
temporarily
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