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...clock that morning, R.A.F. reconnaissance found the ship lying motionless off Mandal, the southernmost point of Norway. Shepherded by her destroyers, she soon limped away at greatly reduced speed into the safety of the Skagerrak, probably so strongly protected by German land-based fighters that the British bombers-too far from home to bring a fighter escort-did not dare strike again. However, one pocket battleship would not raid for some time to come...
...these neutrals was made to feel that they would not hesitate to dash in if they sighted a German warship. One German submarine, a 250-ton U-21-type with a boyish crew of 28 aboard (apparently for training) hugged the coast so closely that she went aground off Mandal, Norway's southernmost town. Her captain presented a huge sausage to the first Norwegian fisherman who came along, asked him to pull the U-boat free. The fisherman, after consuming the sausage and praising its quality, notified the nearest naval station and the Nazis were all interned at Horten...