Word: u-boats
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...last time he talked about the war he was still convinced Germany would win; he quoted U-boat production at eleven a week to prove his point...
...White faces stared up from the U-boat's deck. Men rushed to the conning tower and clambered in. The U-boat crash-dived. Down through the Atlantic's summer sky Pilot Thomas H. Isley's U.S. Army Liberator screamed in an eight-mile dive at a target of agitated water. From the plane's belly dropped a depth charge. The swirling sea gushed forth black blobs...
...Forces Anti-Submarine Command, which has been operating in land-based Liberators as far as 1,000 miles from shore. It was the most illuminating report the U.S. has yet had of the part which the Army has played, and is still playing, in breaking the back of the U-boat campaign. In 13 battles which the Army saw fit to reveal, the Army's cautious claims (Isley's attack was listed as "probable damage") were five subs sunk, five damaged, three chased away from nearby shipping...
...first six months of 1943 the number of ships sunk per U-boat operating was only half that in the last six months of 1942 and only a quarter that in the first half of 1942. . . . During 1943 new ships completed by the Allies exceed all sinkings from all causes by upward of 3,000,000 tons...
...must be remembered that the enemy still has large U-boat reserves, completed and under construction. . . . We can expect continued success only if we do not relax our efforts...