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...beefing up the electric batteries which power a submarine when submerged. Model 21 rarely had to surface because it used the "Schnorkel," an extendable air pipe which enables a submarine to recharge the batteries by diesel while submerged (TIME, Feb. 19). In one 45-day patrol, Model 21 U-boat spent all but four days under water. Only drawback: cooped-up living conditions. Some 116 of the formidable Model 21s were built, but minor defects kept them from going to sea on real war patrols...
Radar was chiefly responsible for defeating the U-boat and the buzz-bomb. The British say that radar and 300 R.A.F. pilots won the Battle of Britain. It was a vital aid to airmen and paratroopers over Normandy on cloudy Dday, and to the U.S. Navy in sinking the Japanese fleet. Radar opened the roof of Hitler's Europe for the day-&-night, all-weather body punching that crippled the Wehrmacht-and it lifted the Nipponese...
Said the Argentine Naval Ministry's official communique: 1) the German U-boat was not responsible for the sinking of the Baía; 2) no Nazi leader or military officer was aboard; 3) the U-530 had landed no one on the Argentine coast before surrendering...
...Port of New York was closed for three days in November 1942 by U-boat mining; Chesapeake Bay was twice closed. Ten mines were swept from the Panama Canal entrance...
Since 1941, the U-boat fleet had sunk no less than 440 U.S. ships, of 2,740,000 gross tons; mines, surface ships, aircraft and miscellaneous enemy action boosted the toll to 538 ships (3,310,000 gross tons or almost 5,000,000 deadweight tons). U.S. merchant seamen killed or missing totaled 5,579. To the British Empire, the cost was far greater: 2,570 ships, of 11,380,000 gross tons; 30,000 mariners dead or missing. For all the Allies and the few neutrals, the monstrous total stood: 4,770 ships, 21,140,000 gross tons:-equal...