Word: u-boats
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...speedily put to use. The swiftness of the American advance had probably given the Germans little time to clog their harbors with destruction. But even if these ports and Lorient had been blocked and shattered, they were prizes of immediate value. They were the Germans' chief Atlantic U-boat bases. The Battle of the Atlantic, already beaten down to nuisance proportions, might be close...
...World War I honest Bernard O'Reilly wore the uniform of a sergeant in the Royal Irish Constabulary. One day in 1916, near his post along the lonely Kerry coast, a U-boat surfaced, put a passenger ashore. Sir Roger Casement, famed Irish patriot, was back from the Kaiser's Germany with a message for Ireland's underground rebels. A countrywoman spied him sneaking along the beach, notified the constabulary. Sergeant O'Reilly hurried to the scene, made the arrest that sent Sir Roger to a traitor's hanging in the Tower of London...
Killed in Action. Klaus Doenitz, eldest son of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, in a brush between a British destroyer and a Nazi torpedo boat. The Admiral's youngest son, U-boat Lieut. Peter Doenitz, was reported killed in March...
This is William Walton, our paratroop expert and correspondent on special assignment to cover the war in the air. He crossed to England on the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer, and you may remember his vivid story of how the Spencer Davey Jonesed a U-boat in an eight-hour battle...
Iron Man. Sir John has filled many a tough job, has been violently criticized. If he made mistakes, he definitely never apologized for one. As Secretary of the Ministry of Shipping, he fought the U-boat menace in World War I and was knighted. As Joint Undersecretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1921, he rode hard on the rebellious Irish. He laid an iron hand on Ernest Bevin's general strike of 1926, and broke it. He governed India's restive province of Bengal for five years, came to be known as the most-shot...