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WASHINGTON--Greatly strengthened anti-submarine measures helped bring a sharp drop in U-boat attacks off the eastern seaboard last week, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told a press conference today...
...U-boat nailed the 5,785-ton Montevideo 300 miles from Bermuda. Of her crew of 49, two were known dead, 13 missing. Her master was Captain José Rodríguez Varela, chairman of the committee which had denied the wounded Admiral Graf Spee more than 24 hours in Montevideo (TIME. Dec. 25. 1939). He had said: "The Germans will never forgive me for this...
British planes are reinforcing American patrols guarding the United States coastline, it was revealed Monday, co-incident with disclosure of the loss of two more Allied merchantmen, one by U-boat action...
...sinking attributed to the U-boat was the 18th such action announced since last Wednesday and the seventh during the weekend. Approximately 50 ships have been torpedoed off the Atlantic coast of the United States since mid-January...
...crew members of the latest U-boat victim were rescued from open boats in which they had drifted 11 days...