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Killed in Action. Klaus Doenitz, eldest son of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, in a brush between a British destroyer and a Nazi torpedo boat. The Admiral's youngest son, U-boat Lieut. Peter Doenitz, was reported killed in March...
...That the Army's 480th Anti-Submarine Group did a commendable job [TIME, Dec. 20] we in the Navy's antisub squadrons readily admit. But to say that the Army "was on the job when the going was hottest" and that the Navy took over after Admiral Doenitz' protégés had been thwarted, is a very untrue implication...
...kind of underwater arm" (promised soon by naval chief Admiral Karl Doenitz, to make up for the admitted defeat of the Nazi U-boat campaign...
...size. By keeping the British Home Fleet always on the alert in home waters, and by putting its offensive emphasis on submarines, it almost won the Battle of the Atlantic, contributed largely to German and Italian dominance of the Mediterranean in 1939-42. But, tactically, German Admirals Raeder and Doenitz have lost some great ships (Graf Spee, Bismarck, Blucher, etc.) in questionable actions...
Spanish correspondents in Berlin, reporting the meeting, said that "powers of enormous magnitude" had been given to Hermann Göring; that a triumvirate of Göring, Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel and Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz was now the "real head of Germany." Allied capitals were skeptical...