sentences:  He served at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island then commanded the destroyer from 1939 to 1940, before assignment as staff gunnery officer for destroyers in the Atlantic.The latter duty terminated 1 March 1942 when Hubbard took command of the "Gleaves"-class destroyer .In command of "Meredith", Hubbard helped screen carrier off Japan for the famed Doolittle bombing raids on Tokyo 18 April 1942.