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...bombers also struck more immediately at the U-boats. Twice last week the R.A.F. raided Lorient, plastered the repair shops that U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators had left standing, and rained blockbusters on the huge U-boat pens. Whether they succeeded in getting through the 11-ft. concrete roofs and walls of the pens, the R.A.F. did not say. But they had slowed up work that Germany dearly wants to finish. A third pen of like capacity (ten U-boats) is being built nearby. Neither the R.A.F. nor the U.S.'s Eighth Air Force had any intention of letting...
...Hope. The situation is not hopeless. Every Navy man in Washington knows the solution: convoys plus air cover. If every Allied cargo carrier is convoyed, most naval experts agree the U-boat can be licked. Submarines have abandoned areas where heavy convoys operate, especially when coastal air patrols function with the naval escorts...
...hardened by endless repetition to the inherent hazards of their own calling, still gape with honest admiration when they hear the sewing-machine hum of a low-powered CAP engine far from land and see a tiny landplane soaring overhead, patiently on the watch for the feather of a U-boat's periscope...
Patently, since his only hope of winning the war is to choke the Allies' flow of supplies, Hitler was throwing his strength and all his ingenuity into his U-boat campaign. South Africa reported huge German craft clustered thickly around Portuguese Lourengo Marques, sinking Allied ships with a frequency that shook South African morale. From Stockholm came a German writer's story of a new wrinkle: submersible barges towed by cargo-carrying subs to refuel and supply U-boats far from home...
Whether this was fact or propaganda, there was no doubt about the crippling effect of the U-boat campaign. The Associated Press's unofficial tally of Allied shipping losses in the western Atlantic alone reached 587 this week.* The success of anti-U-boat operations, about which the Navy kept mum, might be judged in part by the success the Japanese have had against U.S. submarines about which the Navy had more to say. Against a record of hits on more than 150 Jap vessels, only three U.S. submarines have been reported overdue and presumably lost...