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Even more disturbing in Florida were reports that confusion and mismanagement still hampered anti-submarine operations, in two instances causing a one-hour lag between the moment a U-boat was spotted and the time bombers or ships were dispatched to the scene. Meanwhile, there was no letup in the stream of haggard survivors into eastern ports, each with his tale...
Kind Commander. A black-hulled U-boat, its conning tower decorated with a goat insignia, surfaced near two seamen swimming amid wreckage from their torpedoed cargo ship. Hauled aboard, Cornelius O'Connor, 19, and Raymond Smithson, 24, were given a tin cupful of rum by a fat officer in the conning tower. Suddenly a U.S. patrol plane appeared in the distance. O'Connor and Smithson were pushed down into the control room while the U-boat made a crash dive. Blindfolded, they were marched toward the torpedo room, where German seamen sponged off the oil coating the rescued...
Evil Commander. Captain Madsen and 38 men abandoned ship when three torpedoes ripped into their Norwegian vessel, virtually splitting it in two. Near by a U-boat surfaced. Its commander shouted the usual questions, demanded the ship's name, its cargo and destination. When Captain Madsen refused to give the enemy information, the Nazis cut loose with a machine gun, wounding Madsen...
...Nazi U-boat commanders have good cause this week to cry: Achtung! (Look out!) and crash-dive. Coming at them at hitherto unattainable speed is an improved type of U.S. subchaser powered by an extraordinary new engine and driven by an extraordinary new propeller...
...U-boat problem still was far, far from licked...