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...heaviest submarine in the world was ready to go back into action. Capitalne de Corvette Louis Blaison told his countrymen by short-wave radio last week that his vessel would soon again "seek out the enemy...
Most of the Surcouf's crew left her in a British port when France fell, and chose to return home. Captain Blaison last week told how he had got her back in service: "With a small nucleus of veteran submarine men, we built up a crew; we transformed fishermen into gunners, peasants and college boys into electricians, firemen and soldiers into mechanics...
Sitting quietly in Lowell House Common Room last evening and speaking French always in a soft even voice, Capitaine de Covette Blaison of the Free-French submarine Surcouf told his listeners of the evacuation of Dunkirk and of training farmers and mechanics to man his submarine, and expressed the opinion that 90 percent of the Frenchmen in Occupied France are behind De Gaulle...
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