[HiJinx]

CAP pilots like Taylor are among today’s “Flying Minutemen” and women, serving much like their prede­cessors during WWII. In those days, CAP pilots flew more than 500,000 hours, logging 24 million miles in their own planes. They lost 64 aviators and 90 aircraft flying often dangerous mis­sions around the country and offshore. They spotted 173 enemy submarines, attacked 57, hit 10 and sank two.

Source: VFW Magazine, Jan 2003, Vol 90, No.5, found on CAP Web Site at: http://www.nhwgcap.org/wing_pages/vfw_article/vfw_article.htm

[SAMWolf]

Thanks HiJinx. I knew they got at least one.

[Iris7]

That is a lovely story about the Civil Air Patrol. Our people did a fine job. Wish I could have been there.

I've done Anti-submarine Warfare exersizes in my Navy days. Very difficult, requires extremely long periods of high vigilance and effort for every contact. And then the contact is more high vigilance and effort. Even in peacetime sixteen hour days plus night watches.

What those CAP people did is real ASW. Makes me proud.