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...Eagle, 200 yards away. She was lying on her side. Down the great red expanse of her underside, men were sliding into the sea. Suddenly I felt a shock at the base of my spine. I knew it was a depth charge from a destroyer hunting the U-boat." Clinging to the float with other survivors, Thorpe watched the stricken Eagle go. "A rumbling as the sea poured relentlessly into the vessel . . . a flurry of white foam. It subsided and she was gone." A destroyer's crew plucked Thorpe out of the waves...
...best recent news of the U-boat war came last week from London. Britain's Production Minister Oliver Lyttelton reported that after a long upward curve Allied sea losses had decreased in July...
This did not mean that the U-boat had been licked, even in the area where U.S. convoys were heaviest. Many a ship, unconvoyed, had been sunk in the same period. The U-boats had shied away, but they might return at any time. The convoy system was reaching southward through the Caribbean toward the South Atlantic, but in those areas and in the mid-Atlantic, sinkings of unconvoyed ships were still high. Moreover, convoying at best achieves a Pyrrhic advantage: convoys sacrifice efficiency for safety. The ships make fewer and slower trips, lose time at each end of their...
After the ship was torpedoed, the U-boat surfaced and its commander ordered 66-year-old Captain Henry Stephenson to come aboard. Said the U-boat commander to the merchantman's crew: "We'll treat him well. He'll be aboard only about eleven days...
...them," said the German politely. "We have plenty aboard." Snapped salty Captain Stephenson: "I don't want your goddamn German cigars" . . . and with a box of his own under his arm he climbed down into the belly of the submarine. Having looted the cargo ship of food, the U-boat stood off, shelled it, then submerged...