Word: doenitz
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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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...
Because he spends so much time in personal investigation, Karl Doenitz' followers call him Chief Mussel Sniffer. One day two years before the war, dissatisfied with British Admiralty official reports on currents around the Portland naval base, he boarded U-37 and went to see for himself. The destroyer Wolfhound spotted the strange sub, dropped a couple of practice detonators, scared the German visitor to the surface. While Doenitz fumed in the torpedo room, the U-boat commander made proper apologies. Then the U-boat went home. Doenitz reportedly confided to a fellow officer that, on hearing the depth...
...Nazi master Doenitz gladly practices the thing his life has been devoted to: ruthlessness at sea. In the last war there was not enough of it to suit him. In the campaign off the U.S. coast he will have a chance to find whether it pays-or whether he has been wrong all his life...