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...Betty" Stark's statement revised one historical point: the Greer, which the U.S. public had believed attacked by a U-boat without provocation, was in fact attacked while she was dogging a submarine. The destroyer was heading for Iceland with mail, passengers and freight, he wrote, when a British patrol plane reported a sub ten miles dead ahead...
...Greer picked up the U-boat on her detecting apparatus, followed it, keeping astern. The British plane dropped four depth charges and pulled out for home, probably short of gas. For more than three hours the Greer hung on, broadcast the sub's position-probably cursing the failure of British destroyers to turn up-but making no attack, for at that time the shoot-on-sight order had not been issued. The Greer was following her instructions of spotting and making known the presence of a sea raider in the Western Hemi sphere...
...minutes after the depth charges were dropped a second torpedo was sighted 500 yards off the Greer's starboard bow. The Greer went searching. That afternoon she picked up the submarine again, closed, attacked with depth charges, eleven this time. But the U-boat apparently got away to report: two days later Germany announced its version of the encounter...
More notoriety than fame accrued to George Viereck during World War I. After the sinking of the Lusitania by a U-boat, Viereck wrote: "The facts in the case absolutely justify the action of the Germans. Legally and morally there is no basis for any protest on the part...
Churchill: "I deprecate premature rejoicings. I indulge in no sanguine predictions about the future. We must expect that the U-boat warfare, now being conducted by larger numbers of U-boats than ever before, supported by scores of 'Focke-Wolves,' will be intensified...