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...upon what happened when Montgomery suddenly turned on Rommel at El Alamein. Montgomery needed tanks before he could turn. Stripping its own armored divisions, the U.S. had sent him 400 General Shermans, with all the engines stowed aboard one ship. That one ship was singled out by a U-boat and sunk soon after clearing port. Another ship was frantically loaded with engines, and sent off-unescorted-to catch up with the rest. Miraculously, it got through...
...starred flag of the President of the United States, redesigned by Harry Truman himself, flew at an unlikely place: the stubby mast of a Nazi submarine. The U-2513 was a U.S. prize from the surrendered German Navy, under study because of its revolutionary Schnorkel breathing device (TIME, Feb. 19, 1945). Now, with an all-American crew commanded by Lieut. Commander James Barr Casler, the U-boat was at Key West...
...boat was rigged for diving, Harry Truman went below to the control room. Elevators depressed, the streamlined hull slid gently beneath the blue waters. The depth indicator showed that the President was going deeper than any of his predecessors*-200 feet, 300, 400 and finally 440. The U-boat could have gone deeper, but that was as far as the Navy wanted to take its Commander in Chief...
...final German U-boat built during World War II never sank an Allied ship, but it made every other submersible in the world's navies obsolescent. It was the first true submarine: it went faster under water (25 knots) than on the surface (10 knots). It was able to overhaul any but the fastest surface ships and was capable of days-long submersion. Fortunately, this triumph of naval design came too late. When the war ended the only pilot model was on her trial...
...many U.S. warships had World War II cost? Last week the Navv told. Beginning with the destroyer Reuben James, sunk on Atlantic patrol by a U-boat five weeks before Pearl Harbor, and ending with the submarine Bullhead, which disappeared in the Java Sea just as Japan quit, the total was 701. The list included 157 first-line combat ships, plus 544 supporting ships and auxiliaries ranging from troopships to 15-ton yard craft...