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Submarines were chosen to act as beacons in the North African landing. We took position about ten miles from Oran to shine lights and guide the invasion fleet. It was a very easy job. Then we pushed north, off the Balearic Islands. One afternoon, creeping toward "Gib," my officer of...
Escape and Reward. On another patrol we waylaid a convoy. It was bright moonlight and rather difficult to carry out an attack on the surface because eventually we would be sighted. I hadn't appreciated they were zigzagging. When I was just ready to fire, everything all set, the...
Hero of the attack was Lieut. Commander L. W. A. Bennington, commander of a submarine force (the "Porpoise Carrier") which kept Malta alive at the height of its blockade. In the Pacific, his submarine crept through the grey-green waters of the Bay of Bengal, past the Andaman and Nicobar...
In the darkness of Arctic winter, the cruisers Belfast, Norfolk and Sheffield had first sighted the Scharnhorst steering for a Russia-bound convoy. They attacked at once. After two engagements, in which both sides scored hits, the Scharnhorst fled southward only to be intercepted by the Duke of York and...
After three hours Lieut. Kenneth Wright, pilot of U.S. Navy Liberator E for Edward, sighted Roger circling the sub, came roaring down to plant his depth charges astraddle the U-boat in face of its heavy gunfire, circled and came back for strafing. Said Lieut. Wright: "We saw a big...