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Despite the dismal failure of other attempts to put submarine-borne spies to work on U.S. soil, the Germans tried again. This time they sent only two, but apparently thought their prospects well worth a lot of trouble: the Nazis took a U-boat out of service for 54 days to ship them from Kiel to Frenchman...
...during the Atlantic crossing, Gimpel and Colepaugh wore naval uniforms in the event of possible capture, changed to civilian clothes with U.S. labels at the last moment. The U-boat, which ran seven miles up the Bay from the Atlantic, surfaced 300 yards from shore, cloaked by snow and darkness, and two of her sailors paddled the spies ashore in a rubber boat...
...Germans at Arizona's desert-bordered Papago Park camp were full of wooden-faced horseplay. Prisoners nagged their guards, sometimes hid for days only to turn up well-fed and grinning. They were tough, picked men, almost all from Nazi U-boat crews. Beneath their erratic behavior guards could sense some hidden discipline, could only guess, month after month, at its purpose. Last week the patternless war of nerves seemed to be approaching a climax. Hundreds of prisoners formed ranks one afternoon to cheer the German advances on the western front. Then, as guards advanced, the shouting stopped...
...Fridgeir Olasen of Reykjavik, Iceland, a Harvard graduate student for the past year, received his doctorate in Public Health posthumously. He was returning to his home in Iceland, a passenger on the 1542-ton Godafoss, when his boat was sunk by a German U-boat with a loss of 24 lives...
Announced the Admiralty last week: The U-570 was a pretty good submarine. Manned by a specially trained British crew and renamed the Graph, it had made several successful trips for the Royal Navy, destroyed one real German-run U-boat, scored hits on several other ships...