Word: doenitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...losses. When the U.S. entered the war, nearly 250 U-boats were available; in the single month of June 1942, the Germans sank 145 ships. But in the months to come, the tide turned, as anti-submarine measures became effective. In the last four months of the war, with Doenitz running the navy (after Raeder's resignation in 1943), the Germans lost 120 U-boats while sinking 49 ships...
Gallantry. Says Martienssen: "Although . . . Doenitz's last campaign was both stupid and suicidal, one cannot but admire the gallantry of the U-boat crews, who, in spite of the overpowering weight of Allied naval forces, continued to fight in remote areas with undiminished spirit . . . The damage they did was negligible; the losses they suffered were enormous; and yet, alone of all Germany's armed forces, they fought on to the very last day of the war. Their record at sea during the whole war, too, was not as bad as it has been painted. Whatever they might have...
...documents what was plain even to armchair admirals at the start of the war: that neither Britain nor the U.S. was ready for the U-boats. Readers will feel their hackles rise as Morison shows how close Nazi Admiral Doenitz came to wiping out the supply line from the U.S. to Britain. In the first 6½ months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy sank just eight subs (the Germans were building that many every ten days); the subs sank 360 merchant ships...
...wait for the chance to study many German papers from Grand Admiral Doenitz' confidential records which only his defeat could bring to light...
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, originator of the submarine wolf-pack tactics, and for eight days at the end of the Nazi regime the Hitler-chosen chief of what was left; 10 years...