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Did Congressman Andrew May's loose lips ever sink ships during WWII?

Megan Zagone

Supposedly, Congressman Andrew May from Kentucky toured the pacific fleet in 1943 and gave a press conference in June of 1943 where he told the reporters that US subs were not often hit by the Japanese depth charges, because they were set too shallowly.  Vice Admiral Lockwood, commander of the U.S. submarine fleet in the Pacific, estimated that May's security breach cost the United States Navy as many as ten submarines and 800 crewmen killed in action.

I am looking for any newspaper article from 1943 covering Congressman May's breech of classified information.

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    If you're interested in World War II submarine adventures, can I recommend a book I discovered at a Friend of the Library sale in San Diego a couple years ago?  It was a real gem and one of the best books I read during the year of quarantine.  Here, I'll post a link to the whole book at Archive.org and I'll excerpt a few sentences from the Naval War College Review's book review:

    Take Her Deep covers the last five
    combat patrols of the U.S.S. Halibut,
    under his command, ending with a
    near fatal depth charging in Luzon
    Strait in November 1944, which
    damaged her so badly she had to be
    withdrawn from service. A heroic
    story of a close-knit fighting team,
    the book was written at the urging
    of "Captain Pete's" wartime
    crewmen.

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    If you're interested in World War II submarine adventures, can I recommend a book I discovered at a Friend of the Library sale in San Diego a couple years ago?  It was a real gem and one of the best books I read during the year of quarantine.  Here, I'll post a link to the whole book at Archive.org and I'll excerpt a few sentences from the Naval War College Review's book review:

    Take Her Deep covers the last five
    combat patrols of the U.S.S. Halibut,
    under his command, ending with a
    near fatal depth charging in Luzon
    Strait in November 1944, which
    damaged her so badly she had to be
    withdrawn from service. A heroic
    story of a close-knit fighting team,
    the book was written at the urging
    of "Captain Pete's" wartime
    crewmen.

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