[Leaning Right]

“Sighted sub, sank same.”

- U.S. Navy patrol plane over the North Atlantic on January 28, 1942.

https://www.aahs-online.org/pubs/journals/files/542109.pdf

[atomic_dog]

Interesting fact about that message. The US Navy used to use a simple encryption/decryption booklet. I trained on them in SWOS in the mid-80's but no idea if they still use them.

There were pages of military terms in alphabetical order with an random 4 digit number to encrypt it. That was followed by pages of numbers 001-999 for decryption. The person who encrypted the message was kind of lazy and managed to write the message without ever leaving the S page.