Word: u-boats
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...convoys, ran interference for the ships. The planes flew from Britain over the Bay of Biscay for 8,000 flying hours, pounced on subs that left bases in Occupied France to intercept the convoy. Said the British account: "Our bombers only thought they were out on the biggest U-boat hunt of the war. They had no idea that just west across the Bay our convoy was slipping through to Africa." As the convoy neared Africa, bombers from Gibraltar made an umbrella for the landings. Fifty submarines menaced the convoy. By last week Prime Minister Churchill was able to announce...
...fringe of fire, skitters on the sea like a pebble on a pond. In the closing sequence there is a cheerful, almost slapstick substitution of U.S. guile for U.S. courage which would have been inconceivable as propaganda in World War I. The crew of the Sybil Gray captures a U-boat supply ship and learns a Nazi trick of mining torpedoes with delayed-action detonators. Disguised as Nazis, the Sybil Gray crew replenishes three Nazi submarines with these mined torpedoes. A few seconds after each U-boat submerges, it is blown to smithereens. As the victims spume skyward...
While the British bombed Italy by night, American Flying Fortresses kept up their steady schedule of attack on Nazi arsenals in Occupied France. They blasted targets at Brest, the Nazis' Atlantic U-boat nest, where they shot down four Nazi fighters, lost one of their own fighter escort. Next day they struck at the factory-studded area around Lille where they had already done much damage in the raid four weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 19). This week, while other Allied bombers pasted Le Havre, U.S. forces made their first raid on St. Nazaire's big submarine base where...
...canals and coastal waters. Last month, announcing that R.A.F. bombers were dropping 8,000-lb. blockbusters, the Air Ministry declared that photographs showed 270 acres of Karlsruhe and 370 acres of Düsseldorf laid waste. Other cities have been blasted just as intensively. Armament factories, shipbuilding yards and U-boat yards are known to have suffered...
...effulgent moon lighted the way to German U-boat yards at Flensburg on the Baltic. Munich, Naziism's spawning ground, and the Saar industrial basin were also raided. Swiss reports said that damage to Munich had caused the cancellation of a big Nazi party...