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Many of them next ship on a freighter in a huge North Atlantic convoy, Murmansk-bound. Attacked in mid-ocean by a fleet of German submarines, the ship leaves the convoy, but is trailed by one of the U-boats, runs under some Nazi bombers, is finally torpedoed by the dogging sub. Acting as captain in place of the wounded Massey, Bogart sets fire to his own decks, pretends to abandon ship, makes the Germans come to the surface, then rams and sinks them. The freighter limps into port with cargo intact...
...they expected an attack soon: according to London reports, a German force of between 80 and 100 heavy torpedo bombers had been shifted from Norway to Sicily. These bombers, commanded by Luftwaffe General Hans Jürgen Stumpff, caused great losses on the Allies' northern convoy route to Murmansk last year, and they could be dangerous to any invasion fleet in the western Mediterranean...
...further excuses, the Germans last week let out a report from Berlin that Russia is counting on a submarine-free supply route from the west coast of North America through the protected waters of the Arctic Sea. If this route is used instead of that to Murmansk, said the Berlin report, the Arctic convoys "will not lose one small thing...
Perhaps the time had come for Grand Admiral Doenitz' surface fleet to take a hand. Sweden reported that the Nazi fleet at Trondheim, Norway, had steamed northward to take over the Luftwaffe's task of attacking Allied convoys on the Murmansk run. A realistic view was that both the Germans and the Allies considered Southern Europe to be the next great theater of action, and that the Nazis were gathering their most effective forces -U-boats on the Atlantic approaches, aircraft over the Mediterranean-for a supreme test...
...seamen, who were conducted to a survivors' camp below Murmansk, were housed in tin-roofed barracks, which resounded smartly to shrapnel all day long. When they first got there, they were inspected for injuries by Russian doctors, who administered vodka to the low in spirit. Haskell described the entire crew as low in spirit. They had been subjected to the horrors of one percent beverage in Iceland...