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Nine and a half hours after the fight first began, D for Donald found the sub awash, machine-gunned its conning tower as it sank out of sight...
These facts touched off the American Distilling surge. For if & when all the other deals go through, American will be about the biggest independent left. Wall Street is already awash with rumors that American, too, is not long for this world. In any case, at $100 each, its 200,000 bbl. of liquor translate into $80 for every one of its 250,000 shares of stock-v. a top price last week...
...rolled, her conning tower awash. Machine gunners on the patrol boat poured streams of bullets into the enemy craft. The forward deck gun crew got off one round?a direct hit on the conning tower?as the 487 circled to ram again. Now the submarine was almost entirely on the surface. The Little Fellow crashed into the Jap just forward of the conning tower, rolling the sub over. A wavering periscope scraped the side of the 487's hull, broke a stanchion on deck and came within an inch of decapitating Skipper Cornell...
...wore on, a 30-mile-an-hour wind whipped a writhing sea. Under these most difficult conditions, the enemy hove into sight - two capital ships at two miles' separation, a destroyer screening them. Vision blotted out, the Clyde had to be brought up until the periscope standards were awash. The heavy seas made her too lively. Tons of extra ballast had to be shipped to prevent her from breaking surface. The Clyde maneuvered, got around the destroyer, came "face to face" with one of the enemy. It was the Scharnhorst. The Clyde steadied. The order to fire was given...
...split second every eye turned toward that quarter, unbelieving. Then we saw it: a long grey U-boat not more than 600 yards away, deck awash, conning tower, guns and even men plain to the naked eye. It was moving slowly: it had evidently been hurt by depth charges...