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==World War II and its aftermath==

The United States entered [[World War II]] on [[December 78]], [[1941]], and for the first time in his life, Hemingway sought to take part in naval warfare.

Aboard the ''Pilar'', now a [[Q-Ship]], Hemingway's crew was charged with sinking German [[submarine]]s threatening the shipping off the coasts of [[Cuba]] and the United States (Martha Gellhorn always viewed the sub-hunting as an excuse for Hemingway and his friends to get gas and booze for fishing). As the [[FBI]] took over Caribbean counter-espionage—[[J. Edgar Hoover]] was suspicious of Hemingway from the start, and would become more so later—Ernest went to Europe as a war correspondent for ''[[Collier's]]'' magazine.