Word: doenitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long view, the odds were mounting against Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz and his submarine force. The complete conquest of the Mediterranean-yet to be achieved-will afford a shortened route to Suez and the Persian gate to Russia, deprive the Germans of rich hunting in the South Atlantic. Possibly with an eye to further excuses, the Germans last week let out a report from Berlin that Russia is counting on a submarine-free supply route from the west coast of North America through the protected waters of the Arctic Sea. If this route is used instead of that to Murmansk...
Perhaps the time had come for Grand Admiral Doenitz' surface fleet to take a hand. Sweden reported that the Nazi fleet at Trondheim, Norway, had steamed northward to take over the Luftwaffe's task of attacking Allied convoys on the Murmansk run. A realistic view was that both the Germans and the Allies considered Southern Europe to be the next great theater of action, and that the Nazis were gathering their most effective forces -U-boats on the Atlantic approaches, aircraft over the Mediterranean-for a supreme test...
...Weapon's Deeds. Doenitz knew that the convoy system licked the U-boats in World War I. When he was building his fleet for World War II, he guessed that the same tactics would be used again by the Allies, and trained his men accordingly...
...flowed messages from U-boats and air reconnaissance in every theater of German naval operations. Routes of convoys were plotted there, location of submarine packs picked out and corresponding orders given for attack. Radio in code and clear was flashed out constantly: on Christmas Eve last year Doenitz himself addressed his U-boat crews all over the world to wish them Merry Christmas and good hunting...
...keep Britain alive and functioning as the Allies' European base, 700 to 800 ships must cross the Atlantic each month. Each new Allied war theater means more convoy routes, more targets for Admiral Doenitz' fleet, more dispersal of scant Allied escort ships...