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...used to have wooden ships and iron men. Now we've got iron ships and wooden men," said the training officer to a bunch of German naval cadets just after World War II began. Cadet Heinz Schaeffer, 18, soon found that officers and NCOs had ways of putting iron into the German navy's new blood. Each man was handed an electrically charged bar. Movies recorded who screamed and who bit his cheeks in the approved stoic fashion. It was deep winter, but at 6 a.m. reveille the cadets fell in on the weather deck of the training...
Before long, Cadet Schaeffer's group was assigned to U-boat duty, and one day late in 1941 the fledgling submariners heard the speech they had been waiting for, the one that ended: "Go in and sink...
...boat officer. Author Schaeffer saw the end of many an Allied merchantman. While he rarely tells his story as well as the U.S. Navy's Commander Edward Beach in Submarine!, his book has two special interests: 1) it is the first by a World War II U-boat commander, and 2) its tone of "My fatherland, right or wrong shows remorse only for losing...
...there" is an unfriendly place for other reasons. Even at 70,000 ft., an altitude already reached by man-carrying planes, cosmic-ray particles still have much of their tremendous original energy. The heavier ones, as yet ungentled by^ the atmosphere, says German Biophysicist Hermann J. Schaeffer, can plow with destructive force straight through a plane's fuselage and on through the human body. An hour's exposure might permanently damage bone marrow and reproductive organs...
...same program Pierre Schaeffer's "Symphonie Pour un Homme Soul" will be performed, marking the first public recital in the United States of the French Experimental music form termed "Musique Concrete...