Word: doenitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment try to break out to the open sea and raid in force on Allied convoys. It might serve as a grand bait to lure the British Home Fleet (which now includes U.S. units) into a massed submarine trap. The German Navy's new commander, Admiral Karl Doenitz, conferred last week with the Italian Naval Chief of Staff, Admiral Arturo Riccardi - a reminder that the fleet in Norway could also be used to draw Allied strength out of the Mediterranean, should worsening of the Axis position in Tunisia call for escape...
Twelve feet of reinforced concrete protect Admiral Karl Doenitz' U-boats when they put into Lorient and Brest for rest, repairs and refueling. Some Allied sources say that constant air raids, by smashing more poorly protected surface shops and power stations, have lowered the efficiency of Lorient and Brest as much as 75%, but the U-boats in packs still prowl forth into the Atlantic...
Last week there were signs that Admiral Doenitz, newly upped to command of all Hitler's naval forces, may fear a bold attempt to seize the coast of Brittany, smash the submarines at their source, just as Allied air raids on Germany have attempted to choke off submarine construction. German broadcasts announced that civilians had been ordered out of Brest and Lorient. From Brest alone the evacuation of 22,000 nonessential civilians already was under...
...Doenitz devised the U-boats' "wolfpack" tactics, and he has recently sent them to sea in multiple, menacing "echelons of packs." Said he when he took command last week: "I will put the entire concentrated strength of the Navy into the submarine war. . . . The entire German Navy will henceforth be put into the service of inexorable U-boat warfare. The German Navy will fight to the finish...
With the ruthless, 50-year-old Doenitz now in full charge, with submarine production in Germany booming, the U.S. and Britain can expect intensified assault by 500 or more long-range, highly effective U-boats this spring. Until this threat is checked by more escort vessels and perhaps by a top Allied anti-submarine commander of Karl Doenitz' calibre, the Allies will not win their...