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...network has supplemented the film with much material picked out of enemy files. The result is that Victory at Sea tells a tense and complete story. It shows what the wartime newsreel could only guess at: the beaming old ladies hugging Nazi submarine crews as the U-Boat men parade through Berlin; the Japanese pilot bowing to a Shinto Shrine as his carrier heels around into the wind northwest of Pearl Harbor; the American sailors laid out on their stretchers amid the trim officers' cars in that Harbor's parking...
...Torpedo Ship." At the outbreak of World War II, Manning was skipper of the Washington, carrying refugees from Europe. So many children were aboard that the ship was nicknamed "S.S. Diaper." At dawn, one morning in 1940, off the coast of Portugal, a German U-boat surfaced and blinked out a terrifying message: "STOP SHIP. EASE TO SHIP. TORPEDO SHIP." Manning ordered his 1590 passengers to the lifeboats, Then, for ten tense minutes, as the sub repeatedly flashed "ABANDON SHIP," Manning stubbornly replied: "AMERICAN SHIP." Finally, in the agonizing quiet, the submarine signaled: "THOUGHT YOU WERE ANOTHER SHIP. PLEASE...
...speaking daughter, climbed aboard a Soviet DC-3 in East Berlin one day last week and was whisked off to Moscow. There the Russians rolled out the Red carpet for their guest : 60-year-old Pastor Martin Niemoller, head of the German Evangelical Church in Hesse, World War I U-boat captain, onetime Hitler follower and then for eight years Hitler's personal prisoner. Niemöller's mission to Moscow was clothed in strictly clerical garb. He simply wanted, he said, to confer with leaders of Russia's Orthodox Church "on matters of relations with Christians...
Martin Niemöller began as a fighting man. After serving as a U-boat commander in World War I, he became a popular Lutheran minister at Berlin's fashionable Jesus Christus Kirche. The Nazis found him cooperative at first, but by 1937 he was arrested for his stubborn refusal to knuckle under to their church-control regulations. He was kept in concentration camp for eight years...
...reached the climax of Hiroshima. Dr. Bush thumbs through the catalogue of miraculous instruments of World War II: radar, the eye which helped save Britain during the Nazis' all-out bombing campaign; sonar, the underwater ear which helped break the Nazis' almost-decisive U-boat campaign; missiles, such as the V-i which "might well have stopped the [Normandy] invasion"; rocket-firing bazookas which can stop tanks; recoilless guns which can be carried by two men and have the power of 75-mm. howitzers...