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My comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32080389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32080389 gives more details. In short, it's therefore impossib
by eesmith 4y ago
My comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32080389 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32080389 gives more details.
In short, it's therefore impossible for a US frogman in WWII to be using a term which wasn't coined until after the war ended.
The CG45 regulator wasn't patented until 1945. It was "commercialized in France as of 1946, [and] was the first to actually be called the "Aqua-Lung"."
Furthermore, the book starts a little under two years after Perl Harbor, i.e. 1943.