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Only three days before Britain disclosed that Archangel was in use again, the Admiralty had told how a convoy, perhaps the same one or a section of it, had fought its way to safety through a five-day battle with U-boat and Luftwaffe packs. German boasts of sinking 18 ships the Admiralty called "an exaggeration of 175%" (i.e., six or seven ships were lost...
...high time. U-boat sinkings in this hemisphere's waters, several of which were reported almost every morning, had become a national disgrace. Louisiana's Senator Allen Ellender, aroused, said naval officers might be called into a public hearing "if we are not entirely satisfied that everything possible is being done...
...Navy was trying hard. Its job was extraordinarily tough. The Nazi subsea technique and ships have greatly improved since World War I. U-boat packs have a host of devices to permit their skulking and striking with greater safety. Destroyers are no longer the complete answer. U-boat skippers outfox destroyers by outmaneuvering them with fast turns underwater. And the Navy had not enough destroyers to convoy both in coastal waters and cross-ocean supply routes...
...their best equipment is their detection devices, mechanical ears which trace a U-boat's course below the surface...
...Cuba, survivors in a lifeboat, asking a U-boat commander for water and cigarets, got this reply: "Let Mr. Roosevelt supply them...