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...Battle of the Atlantic was history; the U.S. Navy dissolved its antisubmarine flotillas and the Tenth Fleet staff organization under Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. But as the battle became history, the Navy disclosed how serious The U-boat menace had been,* and how great the price of victory...
Pastor Martin Niemoller, the one German whom Christians everywhere had respected, shocked a lot of people last week by saying that he had volunteered to serve in Hitler's U-boat fleet. This admission, made to hostile British and U.S. correspondents in Naples, should have surprised nobody. Niemoller was an ace submarine officer in World War I, he was already a privileged but jealously guarded prisoner of the Nazis when World War II began, and his offer to serve again had been reported...
Their garrison commander, Captain Lut, ramrod-stiff and shaven-pated U-boat skipper, boasted openly of his high score-110,000 tons of Allied shipping-and usually added: "The next time I will do better...
...Said a German U-boat skipper, surrendering his ship at Portsmouth, N.H. (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS): "There's no difference between a German and a Nazi. A Nazi is a good German and a good German is a Nazi...
Before the submarine was unloaded, bemonocled General Kessler thoughtfully read a book entitled After the War-What? by American Author Preston Slosson. Crew members were ordered by U.S. guards to keep their arms folded as they came into port. Kapitänleutnant Johann Fehler, the U-boat's skipper, protested indignantly to Coast Guard Lieut. Charles Winslow that "your men treated us like gangsters." Growled Winslow: "That's what...