World War II broke out and L. Ron Hubbard was commissioned as a lieutenant (junior grade) in the US Navy. To begin with he served as a senior American intelligence officer in Northern Australia. Then returned to the United States and went on to serve in both the North Pacific and Atlantic — commanding anti–submarine corvettes, and training crews for amphibious landings. But he was not a man who enjoyed war, having seen enough killing to last him a lifetime and the effects of that bloodshed on men’s sanity, he continued his research even through the darkest war time days of 1943 and 1944.