Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipmates struggled frantically with the falls of a lifeboat. Said Kelly: "I saw the captain, with his face all bloody, run through the flames along the flying bridge and come aft." In launching, the lifeboat turned over, and Kelly and his shipmates hid under it when the sub cut loose with deck guns. When things quieted down, they clambered up on the bottom of the boat and waited for dawn...
Last week the activities of Nazi sub packs had the United Nations worried. On the heels of Winston Churchill's admission that the Battle of the Atlantic had "worsened"', a London spokesman commented: "Our end of the battle . . . is going pretty well, but the United States...
With its strength spread thin, the U.S. Navy had a job on its hands to keep the sub packs from blocking sea lanes to the south. But it was determined that it would not fall in with Nazi plans by recalling U.S. destroyer fleets to home waters. Last week the Navy was given command of all anti-submarine activities off both the East and the West Coasts, which brought under its jurisdiction several air units of the U.S. Army...
...good spirits, they headed west, helped along by an improvised sail made out of a lifeboat cover. On the fourth or fifth day, they sighted a tanker, but the quartermaster, who was senior man in the boat, was afraid to release a flare for fear of attracting a sub. He blinked an S O S with a flashlight, but the tanker did not respond...
...Axis sub crippled a rickety, old armed U.S. freighter, loosed a parachute flare to illuminate the scene. A contrary wind caught the chute, pushed it back over the sub, shed sufficient light for a carrot-topped Navy gunner on the ship to pound three shells into its conning tower. Survivors insisted that the raider went down with all hands...