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High behind the thronging shipyards, docks and naval works of Hampton Roads, Va. stands a bleak hillside cemetery. In the yellow Virginia soil, in row on row of new-heaped graves (already there are over 50), lie the bodies of German U-boat crews...
...does not give up all its dead. Depth charges usually sink a U-boat without chance of survivors reaching the surface. Before each grave was heaped, FBI men examined every body carefully, made copious notes, preserved all papers and identification marks. When the war is over there will be a pitiful sheaf of dog-tags, letters and personal papers to send German relatives...
...industrial wellsprings that supply the German army in Russia were targets; but the raids were part & parcel of the Battle of the Atlantic. Since March, when U-boat marauding in the western Atlantic grew intense, the R.A.F had blasted a pattern of destruction through German submarine-building cities, seeking to choke off U-boats at their source. Among them were Augsburg and Cologne (diesel engines), Essen (plates and torpedo tubes), Emden and Bremen (assembly yards), Warnemünde (U-boat training base), Wilhelmshaven and St. Nazaire, France (operational bases...
...Nazis were known to have dispersed their U-boat industry throughout the Reich and occupied territory to evade the R.A.F., breaking up such pre-war building centers as Hamburg, Kiel, Bremen. Relentlessly the R.A.F. has searched out new plants and plastered them with explosives...
Sure index of pessimism over the U-boat menace was the 5% increase in marine war-risk insurance rates announced last week. The boost lifted rates from U.S. East Coast ports to Egypt via the Cape of Good Hope to 25%; to India, 20%; Australia and New Zealand, 20%; East Coast of South America, 20% ; West Coast of South America...