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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submarine U-47, commanded by Lieut. Gunther Prien, surfaced off the Orkneys. Prien noted in the log: "The English are kind enough to switch on all the coastal lights, so I can obtain the most exact fix . . ." At dawn the next morning the submarine lay submerged at a depth of 270 feet outside Scapa Flow. At 7:15 that night it surfaced and the crew ate a warm supper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Suicide Spirit | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...land "everything is dark, high in the sky are the flickering Northern Lights, so that the bay, surrounded by highish mountains, is directly lit up from above. The blockships lie in the sound, ghostly as the wings of a theatre." Prien had studied the chart until he knew it by heart. "I am now repaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Suicide Spirit | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...thundering columns of water and then by columns of fire. The harbor sprang into life. The destroyers in the anchorage were lit up. Cars sped along the highway. Directly opposite the submarine, a car stopped, turned around, and raced back toward town. Thinking the driver had seen him, Prien withdrew at full speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Suicide Spirit | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...ears pickled in wine. Upon them in 1905 crusty Admiral Togo smashed the Russian fleet. Presumably the submarine knocking on the door last week was American. It had achieved one of World War IPs most daring submarine penetrations of enemy waters, a feat ranking with German Günther Prien's entry at Scapa Flow, the Jap invasion of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. raid in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Knock at the Door | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Died. Stocky, boyish-looking Commander Günther Prien, 33, Germany's No. 1 naval hero; spurlos versenkt in the Battle of the Atlantic. A shrill-voiced banty, called "little hothead" by his friends, he won the awed admiration of enemy sea fighters as well as his own countrymen by a daring and ingenuity that sank a claimed 235,941 tons of shipping. After his submarine torpedoed H.M.S. Royal Oak inside the heavily mined harbor at Scapa Flow in October 1939, the British Admiralty paid tribute to his "remarkable skill and daring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 2, 1941 | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

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