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...Enemy Below. A thriller of a duel between a DE and a U-boat, well played by Robert Mitchum and Curt Jürgens, sharply directed by Dick Powell (TIME...
...ever regretted the expenditures. The Intracoastal Waterway more than paid its way during the bitter U-boat warfare of World War II, when the U.S. used it to transport 90 million tons of vital supplies, safe from preying U-boats in the Gulf. But the Waterway has really proved its value in peacetime. At least 500 companies (among them: Reynolds Metals, Alcoa, Monsanto, Dow Chemical) have built plants and warehouses along its banks, while thousands of others use it for cheap transportation. One enterprising Texan has built up a booming business carrying truck trailers up and down the canal...
...Lion), Donitz had masterminded the submarine campaign that destroyed about 15 million tons of Allied and neutral shipping, with a loss of tens of thousands of Allied lives in World War II. "Kill and keep on killing," jug-eared, ice-blue-eyed Dönitz had exhorted his U-boat captains. "Remember, no survivors. Humanity is a weakness." The U-boatmen responded by firing on torpedoed crews struggling in the water...
...hero as a German U-boat skipper in World War I and a martyr as a Nazi prisoner in World War II, West Germany's pugnacious Pastor Martin Niemöller, neutralist foe of his country's rearmament, began a skirmish with his own Evangelical Lutheran Church. Charged last month with neglecting the spiritual duties of the church's Foreign Bureau, run by him, Niemöller wrote a bitter letter of resignation to famed Bishop Otto Dibelius, tossed in a threat that unless the charges are withdrawn, "I will hold the time ripe to expose...
...fatigue and everything the subs can throw at him. For 48 terrible hours he fights his destroyer and directs as exciting a battle as Author Forester's famed Horatio Hornblower ever experienced under sail. In the desperate game of hit-and-run, Krause is frequently fooled by the U-boat commanders, but as he fights, he learns. Ships are torpedoed and men are left to drown because to try to save them would mean to endanger more lives. Moral anguish, physical suffering and fatigue bring Krause to the edge of senselessness. The commander's personal battle, fought...