Word: subs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trooper's whispered words, relayed to Westport police barracks, started Connecticut's biggest man hunt. The speeder, a 20-year-old Arlington, Mass, parole violator named John Xavier Donahue, was sighted that night as he drove into Greenwich, was pursued amid a hail of sub-machinegun bullets and driven to cover in a garage loft. Only minutes later he came out, calling "Don't shoot! I surrender!" By that time Trooper Morse had been dead for four hours...
...Days to Live. Almost before Author Schaeffer and his sub mates had warmed to the role of ship-killers, they found themselves among the hunted. By Christmas 1942, the U-boats in the Atlantic were already spending much of their time trying to avoid radar and Allied planes. In Schaefler's boat the men got so jumpy they began mistaking seagulls for planes and shelling lighthouses. Once they were pinned down for eight hours while 168 depth charges thundered around them...
...able to estimate the life expectancy of any U-boat 40 days. "Forty days was generous," says Author Schaeffer. But Admiral Dönitz, who lost two sons in the submarine service, kept sending the U-boats out. Schaeffer was assigned to commanders' training school just before the sub in which he had been on duty was sunk with all hand...
...reader, to the effect that all Allies had fought not out of hatred of Nazism, "as they have pretended-for Naziism ended with the death of Hitler-but of the people of Germany themselves." Since "good German" Schaeffer could not bring himself to turn over his sub to the Allies, he asked his crew to vote for a transatlantic dash to Argentina. Thirty-one men voted ja; the rest were put ashore in Norway...
...rashes and boils. With half of its fuel gone and only one-third of the trip completed, U-977 finally surfaced. Thereafter, except for a few anxious moments, the South Atlantic crossing was pretty much a pleasure jaunt, with the men spearing fish or taking surfboard exercise behind the sub...