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he was going to be accepted. I was presently surprised on knowing that this young man had not only been accepted but had completed his training and qualified as a flying cadet from the aircraft carrier "Wright."
          On the next day, we went to sea on the submarine, "U. S. Senate." It was a quite a delightful experience, looking at the World from a depth of 60 or 65 feet.We noticed there the presence of two Negro in the crew, and I think one Filipino; I am not too certain. We had a chance to discuss service on the submarine. As far as I could gather, there were two men on board who were reasonably happy; they had no particular feelings one way or the other. I noted however that there were a large number of technically trained people on a submarine. You just can't do anything with it all unless you have scores of people who know exactly what button or what lever to pull and push. And, I inquired about the absence of the Negro personnel in this unit, and I was told by the Commandant, he had no objections to them, but none had been assigned. I talked to a number of those white men to find out how they got there,and what training they had gotten,and what education they had. Most of them were high school men; some of them had come out of vocational high schools and had majored in machine shop or electrical work and had taken additional training after getting into the Service. I understand that Negroes have