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...Allied investigators. To train his first recruits, Doenitz established an institute which he blandly named "school for defense against submarines." When, in June 1935, Hitler's naval treaty with the British released the Reich from some of the Versailles restrictions, Doenitz was ready. By October his first flotilla was afloat. He was still bound to keep his visible U-boat fleet within limits, but by expanding his spare-parts system of construction he built far over the treaty ratio...
Americans were proud and delighted when they received the news of the amazing success of MacArthur's flyers in destroying the entire enemy flotilla. They cannot have the same feeling regarding the cold-blooded slaughter of the helpless...
...story starts at the end instead of the beginning, with a superbly realistic sea battle near Crete. Captain Edward Kinross (Coward) and his flotilla send a Nazi convoy to the bottom well aware that they will probably soon follow their victims. Says Coward, drinking cocoa after the battle, to his signal officer...
...meaning of Dunkirk hits home when Mr. Miniver pilots his speedboat slowly down the Thames estuary with the flotilla of amateur navigators who set out to rescue their beaten Expeditionary Force. The Nazi mentality becomes viciously and pathetically real when Mrs. Miniver disarms a wounded German flyer in her kitchen, then slaps his face for talking Aryan nonsense. World War II is reduced to the compass of an Anderson shelter when the Minivers and their well-scrubbed youngsters ride out an air raid in their own backyard. It is anybody's backyard, anywhere...
...World War II's start, Lord Louis was a Captain in command of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla. Three months later his flagship, the new destroyer Kelly, hit a mine in the North Sea. Lord Louis nursed her home, transferred to another flagship until the Kelly was repaired. The next May, a U-boat torpedoed the Kelly. Lord Louis & crew again brought her home. In November 1940, aboard the new destroyer Javelin, Lord Louis led an attack on three German surface raiders. In flight, the Nazi warships fired a torpedo salvo. Two torpedoes holed the Javelin. R.A.F. fighters warded...