sentences:  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.Thereafter he conned his destroyer on-arduous patrol and escort from Hawaii to the Samoan, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands.