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...last week served notice that his submarine campaign is the most dangerous weapon in Germany's armory of defense, and that to beat it the U.S. and Britain must bring their best might & brains to bear. Into the supreme command of the German Navy, succeeding famed old Erich Raeder, moved thin-lipped Admiral Karl Doenitz, whom the Germans call the greatest submarine genius of history...
...gangrene. Several died. Squalls nearly swamped the rest, but the rain was welcome. On the 26th day they saw a moth and two butterflies. Five days later 15 haggard men stumbled ashore, the only known survivors of the anonymous U.S. merchantman which had destroyed one of Grand Admiral Erich Raeder's deadly raiders...
...Vice Admiral Doenitz went a telegram of congratulation from Germany's top sea lord, Admiral Erich Raeder. The telegram stated that total United Nations shipping sunk in all theaters in six months amounted to 616 ships-nearly 4,000,000 tons-most of it in American waters. This meant that not fewer than 20,000 seamen had been dumped into the ocean...
Churchill said fortnight ago that every convoy carrying U.S.-British supplies to Russia had got through. It may be that German Grand Admiral Erich Raeder will take over where U-boats and the Luftwaffe have not brilliantly succeeded, will order the Tirpitz and other warships out from Trondheim to pulverize convoys. If he does, say the British, the fight will be terrific...
More than any other of the crack relicts of the old Navy who now serve under him, Raeder has always been a man of one idea: the Navy must be rebuilt, must again fight on (and not only under...