Word: u-boats
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...split second every eye turned toward that quarter, unbelieving. Then we saw it: a long grey U-boat not more than 600 yards away, deck awash, conning tower, guns and even men plain to the naked eye. It was moving slowly: it had evidently been hurt by depth charges...
...Spencer, first into action was the forward 3-in. gun. A splash foamed beyond the submarine. Another was closer. The port 3-incher roared. Big 5-in. guns fore & aft plowed furrows of water near the U-boat. The air reeked of cordite fumes. Black dust and smoke settled over the Spencer's decks and hung in the air. Stocky, gruff Captain Harold Sloop Berdine kept his ship on a course that gave the gunners a maximum chance...
...offensive against Europe, Churchill still rates "the U-boat danger as the greatest we have to face." But he predicted confidently: "It will be not only met and contained, but overcome...
...German High Command admitted a bitter truth last week: U-boat sinkings in April were less than half the 926,000 tons claimed in March. Berlin's excuses only made the admission more impressive: the weather had been "extraordinarily bad"; it was impossible to watch all the convoy lanes at once; strongly escorted convoys were bagging three and four submarines in each attack...
...Initial U-boat successes fell off when the British woke up to the fact that the submarine was still a grave menace, and escorted their convoys more heavily. But after the fall of France, when the U-boats had bases along the entire west coast of Europe, the wolf-pack system raised hob with Allied shipping. Of some 57,600,000 total deadweight tons of British shipping, U-boats sank at least 17,600,000 tons in three and a half years. Working in the Nazis' favor was the vast demand on Allied shipping for the supply of many...