Word: doenitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submarine campaign is the most dangerous weapon in Germany's armory of defense, and that to beat it the U.S. and Britain must bring their best might & brains to bear. Into the supreme command of the German Navy, succeeding famed old Erich Raeder, moved thin-lipped Admiral Karl Doenitz, whom the Germans call the greatest submarine genius of history...
...rendezvous in the Indian Ocean somewhere off Madagascar went Germany's thin-lipped Vice Admiral Karl Doenitz and Japan's pudgy Admiral Osami Nagano. What the honorable Doenitz said to the honorable Nagano was not revealed by the Swedish paper which reported the meeting last week. But-if they met-a good guess was that they discussed the highly effective German submarine campaign-a defensive campaign which cannot win the war for Hitler, but can indefinitely delay an Allied victory...
During the week of July 12, big-laughing Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox laughed off newsmen with optimistic noises. In that very same week, more Atlantic shipping was sunk than in any other week since Nazi Admiral Doenitz (TIME, Feb. 2) launched his well-prepared undersea attack...
...Vice Admiral Doenitz went a telegram of congratulation from Germany's top sea lord, Admiral Erich Raeder. The telegram stated that total United Nations shipping sunk in all theaters in six months amounted to 616 ships-nearly 4,000,000 tons-most of it in American waters. This meant that not fewer than 20,000 seamen had been dumped into the ocean...
...showed that its sturdy construction enabled it to submerge to nearly 600 feet, twice the usual operational limit of depth charges. A newly improved motor has also helped give some U-boats greater speed at sharp-angle crash-diving. Such German submarines, the brain children of Vice Admiral Karl Doenitz (TIME, Feb. 2), are now powered with a single, modified diesel engine that burns oil in surface cruising and a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen when submerged. Other submarines use oil-burning diesels on the surface, electric motors under water...