Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sub got three tankers in all, damaged a fourth later off Curaçao. Its shore-aimed fire, directed at Standard Oil Co.'s big refinery, did no damage.' But the Axis had carried the war into the Caribbean, only 750 miles from the Panama Canal...
...World War I, during the all-out sub campaign from spring into the fall of 1918, 91 ships were destroyed by U-boats in North American waters, with 368 lives. The gross tonnage was 197,761 tons, including that of eleven ships lost through collisions or other mishaps...
Since the World War II sub campaign began, 15 ships, besides the 16 sunk in U.S. waters and the three off Aruba, have gone down off Canada. The total showed plainly that, in a week already black enough for the Allies, the Axis was smashing at the U.S. as dangerously on the Atlantic seaboard as in the Pacific. U-boats have accounted (by unofficial reckoning) for at least as much offshore tonnage as was lost during World War I. Approximately twice as many seamen have been killed or listed as missing; and the subs have done it in only...
...reported toll of submarine operations along the East Coast was twelve ships, some 350 lives. The day the Lady Hawkins' fate became known coast guardsmen landed at Chincoteague, Va. a handful of near-dead seamen, survivors of the torpedoed tanker Francis E. Powell. Reports that two Axis subs are operating in the Gulf of Mexico brought a complete blackout along 100 miles of Texas coast. The success of counter-measures was the Navy's own secret. Just one hint was allowed to slip through. The Navy released a terse report of one unnamed flyer: "Sighted sub, sank same...
...sub-themes which blast at the conservatism of West Point, and at the corruption of the government, are hasty and unconvincing. The main theme, which claims that imperialism is bad when it is for money, good when it is for the glory of the country, confuses the film rather than unifies...