CHAPTER 35
Seward Johnson and the Submarine Chaser
Seward Johnson, 1928
I received a comment on my last post from Todd Woofenden, who’s the editor of a fascinating website, The Sub Chaser Archives, which details the stories and history of U.S. sub chasers in World War I. Sub chasers were heavily armed wooden hulled boats that were built to hunt down the German U-boats, or submarines, that dominated the seas and caused heavy losses to shipping and merchant convoys carrying supplies. Given the destructive effectiveness of the U-boats, this was dangerous work.
I had mentioned in my last post that Robert Wood Johnson’s youn
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