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...aspects: the U.S. was participating actively in convoys and patrols; now that the Neutrality Act was virtually repealed, it would soon move in with increasing numbers of armed merchant ships. Allied convoys were larger and better escorted. Germany had admitted that Britain's greatest tactical advantage lay in Iceland, where convoys put in to regroup their ships according to speed and value before the last dash to British ports. U-boat wolf packs were still extracting heavy tolls,* but improved depth charges and Allied defensive technique were growing more effective...
...there was the usual routine for Walter Sorensen: cleaning the breech-blocks and oiling the six 3-inch A.A.s, checking the trip-mechanisms for the ash cans (depth charges all set because the waters up around Iceland were, as the boys said, "stiff with subs"). It was hard work. The whole crew had been ordered onto Condition Baker-watch and watch, four hours on and four...
...left.") Not much prospect of marrying. ("I hope it's Lee if we are still going together when I get out of the Navy.") Not much chance of getting out of the Navy-certainly not while Rube was putting her nose into cold waves somewhere west of Iceland...
Somewhere west of Iceland the Reuben James was sunk. The Navy merely said ". . . by a torpedo during the night. . . ." Walter Sorensen was aboard when the torpedo hit. Rube had none of the Kearny's fancy compartmentation; she just holed and sank, and Walter Sorensen went into the sea with...
...true story of the U.S.S. Kearny, which was torpedoed but not sunk three weeks ago, was told from a hospital cot after she arrived at Reykjavik, Iceland, by Ensign Henry Lyman, of Ponkapog, Mass...