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Some 250 miles southwest of Portugal, enemy aircraft spotted an important Allied convoy, bound for Britain. Next morning the enemy attacked with submarines, followed up with heavy bombers, rocket-glider bombs. Through four days and three nights the Germans displayed their newest air-and-sea tactics...
Under Water. As many as ten submarines bunched against the convoy never broke through escorting Canadian corvettes, British frigates and sloops. Focke-Wulf 200s and four-engined Heinkel 1775 flew out from French bases to launch radio-controlled glider bombs (British sailors call them "Chase-Me-Charlies"). Flak from the ships, Allied Fortresses, Liberators, Hudsons, Catalinas, Venturas, Sunderlands, fought off the attackers. One British pilot said that the glider bombs looked like small monoplanes and performed "most unusual acrobatics." But they were ineffective: at the battle's end, only two Allied ships had been damaged, none had been sunk...
...soldier's son saw service on a British cruiser, served on an escort vessel in North Atlantic convoy early in World War I, stayed on while the Canadian Navy went back to a peacetime starvation basis...
They went into the Battle of the Atlantic with almost nothing. But soon the Royal Canadian Navy, backed up by the Dominion's high-speed shipbuilding program, was handling 40% of the convoy work on the North Atlantic. Last fall, when the tide turned in the Battle of the Atlantic, the R.C.N. and the Royal Navy sent 33 U-boats to the bottom...
...darkness of Arctic winter, the cruisers Belfast, Norfolk and Sheffield had first sighted the Scharnhorst steering for a Russia-bound convoy. They attacked at once. After two engagements, in which both sides scored hits, the Scharnhorst fled southward only to be intercepted by the Duke of York and a task force somewhere above the North Cape. Hits by the British battleship gave the destroyers a chance to slip in for a torpedo attack, after which the Duke of York pounded the Scharnhorst to a helpless hulk, and a final torpedo attack by the cruiser Jamaica, the Belfast and four destroyers...