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Sept. 9-Enemy aircraft spotted the convoy wallowing north from Britain. No attack came for three days, but in the interim one U-boat was driven...
...thinks about is getting his chickens home," said Admiral Boddam-Whetham's brother, an official in the British fuel ministry (three other brothers died in the army in World War I). "Being a sailor, he fears fog and ice more than any U-boat or Focke-Wulf. He is very reserved and hates to talk about himself...
...tower by a 4.7-inch shell. As the battered Assiniboine closed in to ram, one of its depth charges landed directly on the sub's narrow deck, rolled off, and exploded beneath the surface. The surviving Germans surrendered and were rescued (see cut) as their seawolf sank. The U-boat was, perhaps, the one whose badly aimed torpedo hit the rocky headland and broke windows in a Quebec village last week...
...Berlin taps were sounded for another U-boat master, Lieut. Commander Rolf Muetzelburg, bearer of the oak leaves on the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The fifth of Germany's top sub men killed in action, Muetzelburg had evidently been trapped on the conning tower when his U-boat crash-dived...
There were signs that the U-boat packs were veering southward to seas teeming with shipping to Africa (see p. 25). Brazil reported a Nazi surface raider off South America and London forecast an immediate increase in submarine attacks in the South Atlantic. The U.S. had a breather in the war against the submarines. It could not yet hail victory...