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dol ,/; <br />PILOT PROFICIENCY _ <br />The Surprising Missions of the Civil Air Patrol <br />The CAP operates the largest general aviation aircraft fleet in the world. <br />By Martha Kine <br />Apri122, 2019 <br />A Civil Air Patrol cadet takes her first orientation flight in a CAP glider.Couriesy King Schools <br />The threat from Axis submarines prowling the East Coast of the United States was scary and very. real. <br />Onshore shelling terrorized civilians, but the real low -hanging fruit for the submarines was on the seas. By as <br />early as August 1942, Axis subs had caused the loss of thousands of lives, mainly merchant mariners, and sunk <br />more than 600 ships totaling 3 million tons. Winston Churchill was quoted as saying, "The only thing that <br />really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril." <br />11{7-40 <br />