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...Nazi U-boat fleet, now readying a great spring campaign in the Atlantic, had given the Allies an omen of what was to come...
Other sources reported that a huge section of Marseille's Old Port area, also cleared of civilians (TIME, Feb. 8), was being converted hastily into a new U-boat lair. Marseille would have the advantage of distance from British airfields and relative safety from sea assault. If the Allies invaded Europe's soft underside, Marseille-based submarines would be in a position to make the Mediterranean even more perilous than the torpedo-infected Atlantic...
Somber Panorama. In the U-boat war, said Mr. Churchill, "we shall be definitely better off ... at the end of 1943." U.S. and Canadian shipbuilding exceeded losses by 1,250,000 tons† in the last half of 1942 ("It is not much but it is something"). In the past two months sinkings were the lowest they have been in over a year. Every U-boat afloat in the first year of war averaged 19 sinkings; in the second, twelve; in the third, only seven and a half. Casualties among U-boats, on the other hand, have steadily increased...
...Turin and made their first swoop over Mussolini's naval base at La Spezia. R.A.F. bombers by night, U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators by day, flew over western Europe. They gave Hamburg its 95th plastering. They roared through the valley of the Ruhr. They swarmed over the U-boat base at Lorient, where ten acres of the naval arsenal have now been reported destroyed. Apparently unable to pierce the eleven-foot roofs of the concrete sub pens, the Allied bombers have concentrated on softer targets which are vital to maintenance and repair. Result: 75% of Lorient's headquarters...
...seven months no U-boat has penetrated the U.S. Eastern Sea Frontier...