Word: u-boats
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...Then U-boat warfare, the sinking of the Lusitania, makes Sometown feel angry frustration, determined to do something. But Congressman John Lawton says there is only one thing to be done, and no one wants to go to war. As 1915 falls flaming into 1916, this is true, but Sometowns over the U. S. look toward thin-faced, worried Woodrow Wilson, about to marry Mrs. Gait. When Charles Evans Hughes quits the Supreme Court to run against Wilson, and almost wins, a period in history is already drawing to a close. Sometown's main street sees its first Preparedness...
...success in scotching France's sea power before the Axis could get it was a national bracer. For even if she stood off Blitzkrieg, Britain already faced Blockade. With customary exaggeration, the German High Command last week claimed that, since obtaining Channel and Atlantic bases, their inroads by U-boat, speed boat and aircraft on British shipping now rose toward the high rates achieved during World War I-more than 100,000 tons per week...
...Hitler two possible types of attack on Britain then opened: 1) to besiege it, 2) to assault it. The siege began late in June. German submarines, inactive since March, put to sea again, and British shipping losses rapidly mounted. At the same time the air arm supplemented the U-boat campaign by attacking convoys and docks as well as bombarding industrial objectives...
...estimated that it would take 200 to 250 vessels to land five divisions, and such large convoys would also invite fleet attacks at sea. But if large units of the British Fleet attempt to operate in the narrow waters near Dover they would be exposed to heavy German air, U-boat and artillery attack, and would probably suffer losses...
...preventing Nazi propagandists from claiming that the British had scuttled her deliberately. Afterwards the Germans, who ruthlessly attacked hospital ships at Dunkirk, had to content them selves with grumbling that the British should have marked the ship so that it would not be attacked. The British announced that the U-boat commander who struck the blow was Germany's Scapa Flow hero, Lieut. Captain Günther Prien...