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Finally the submarine showed fight. She changed course, closed with the Greer. With every man on the Greer at battle station, the lookouts sighted an impulse bubble close aboard-the big globule of air which rises when a submarine fires a torpedo. The submarine had fired without raising her periscope...
It was a close miss. Within a minute the Greer sighted the bubbling wake of the torpedo about 100 yards astern. By that time the little 1,090-ton destroyer had begun to wheel, was steaming swiftly toward the spot where she had seen the impulse bubble. Over the spot...
Two minutes after the depth charges were dropped a second torpedo was sighted 500 yards off the Greer's starboard bow. The Greer went searching. That afternoon she picked up the submarine again, closed, attacked with depth charges, eleven this time. But the U-boat apparently got away to...
When Donald Nelson's picture appeared on TIME'S cover last February, in the foggy, groping first winter of defense, the big easy-mannered buyer already loomed as one of the most far-sighted defense managers, at a crisis-time when ability to foresee the future was even...
Even if Premier Luang Pitul does yield, Japan may have a fight on her hands. If Japan occupies Thailand's Isthmus of Kra (on the Malay Peninsula) the Japanese will have bases from which they could easily attack Singapore. And they might, from Thailand, be able to close the...