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...pair of reporters of the Philadelphia Record, hearing of the shocking exploit of two British Security policemen who toured a London suburb in Nazi uniforms unmolested (TIME, Feb. 2), decided to see whether it could happen here. Dressed as German U-boat commanders, William B. Mellor Jr. and Frank Toughill wandered about downtown Philadelphia, talked German in a crowded automat, peering suspiciously at defense plants, asked a traffic cop questions in broken English. Only interest they aroused was from a small boy on roller skates. Said he: "Oh, boy! Join the Navy and see the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENEMY ALIENS: Asps on the Hearth | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Canadian liner Lady Hawkins skittered across a slick, black ocean. Scarcely 100 yards away a U-boat reared up out of the sea for the brief space of 60 seconds. The raider fingered the Lady coldly with a pair of searchlights. Then the Lady Hawkins shuddered under the impact of a torpedo. Her forward mast crashed. Over on her side careened the 7,988-ton liner. Passengers and crew tumbled into the sea. A second torpedo exploded in the Lady Hawkins' engine room and her career ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: End of a Lady | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...some 300 who had been aboard. Among the missing: 27 men (out of 40) from St. Joseph, Mo., who had jumped at an opportunity to go to Bermuda on a construction job. Shocked, St. Joe's News-Press cried out a curse on submarines: "May the U-boat that struck by stealth, bringing death to more than a score of St. Joseph citizens, meet with such a fate. . . . Before the sinking of the Lady Hawkins this would have seemed a savage and un-American wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: End of a Lady | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...British unofficial estimates: "Several thousand" U-boat prisoners, a "minimum of 250" German and Italian submarines sunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Deed Is All | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...Karl Doenitz' followers call him Chief Mussel Sniffer. One day two years before the war, dissatisfied with British Admiralty official reports on currents around the Portland naval base, he boarded U-37 and went to see for himself. The destroyer Wolfhound spotted the strange sub, dropped a couple of practice detonators, scared the German visitor to the surface. While Doenitz fumed in the torpedo room, the U-boat commander made proper apologies. Then the U-boat went home. Doenitz reportedly confided to a fellow officer that, on hearing the depth charges, he thought the "raving idiot in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Deed Is All | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

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