Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the number one picture may be used to replace the customary inking sub on The Periscope's front over, certain mechanical requirements will be announced by the committee, which further stipulates that only Pictures of potential partners be submitted, There by limiting entries...
...unarmored merchant ship equipped with an aircraft landing deck: "Scratch one pig-boat-am searching for more." The Borie found another huge pigboat on the surface. Cried a signalman: "My God, what is it, the Bremen?" In ten to 30 seconds the Bone's guns swept the sub's deck. The destroyer leaped forward to ram, went partly over, her bow straddling the U-boat's forward deck. There she stuck. For ten feverish minutes the Borie poured metal from her 4-in. guns, her tommy guns, shotguns and pistols at the Nazis and their sub...
...straining, pulled out of the trap, still seaworthy. For more than an hour the two ships fought each other "like a couple of tomcats in the dark," the U-boat hurling torpedoes at the destroyer, the destroyer blazing away with her guns. At last, her superstructure shot away, the sub exploded and sank...
...Borie, holed by ramming the sub, was mortally wounded. Her engine-room crew had worked neck-deep in water to keep her going during the fight. They had used cigaret-lighter fluid to keep the auxiliary radio engine going. The next night the crew was ordered off the ship. Twenty-seven crewmen lost their lives in the freezing North Atlantic. Friendly shells sank the Borie...
...sub surfaced, slowly drew close to the yellow raft. Crewmen on the deck saw that the airman was sound asleep under his rubber sheet. From a distance of six feet, a subman bellowed...