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Rosy Rosendahl's airborne creed is: that the U.S. needs good offshore patrol and needs it badly. As evidence he presented the 1918 raids by U-boats on commerce in U.S. waters, a piece he knew by heart. That summer six U-boats left Kiel to see what kind of trouble they could stir up on the U.S. Atlantic coast...
...dance. In England Longstreet talked to a nice tart and a nice Lord. In Paris there was a countess who admired gangster slang: "What do you know, you mug, about this gimmick?" In Germany he saw the old vicious guns of World War I scrapped in a field near Kiel, read in the papers of an America no American has ever seen, and talked to a brave old pastor who was ''headed as sure as Christ Himself" for a concentration camp...
Sickly Recruits. In 1934, when Hitler was rebuilding the German Army, military doctors found that even in such healthy cities as Kiel, the number of perfect human specimens was "frightfully low"-only 12.6%. Only half the men examined in that district were sturdy enough to join the Army. Even among the most carefully selected men in the Air and Marine Corps, a high proportion suffered from tooth and mouth diseases caused by scurvy (lack of vitamin C). "Especially in evidence" were two types of nervous disorders: 1) constipation; 2) "soldier-heart...
...Archibald's words, and making the Germans go in their cellars to think about the Lend-Lease Act, the R. A. F. proceeded to send out new equipment for raids it termed "heaviest yet"-on Berlin for the first time in 82 days, Hamburg, Cologne, the Ruhr, Kiel, Bremen. This week the Germans admitted that the North German Lloyd Liner Bremen was being consumed by a "fire of undetermined origin." The R. A. F. thought it knew...
Last week, after a winter layoff during which 4,000 raw ratings were trained at the Kiel Submarine School by veteran U-boatmen, the Germans were out in force again with another tactic which was the fruit of winter experiments: hunting in packs. Survivors arriving at a Canadian port told of having been attacked by "at least three or four" German submarines; others arriving in Manhattan referred to "a nest of at least seven subs." In one recent case, nine simultaneous torpedo explosions gave a convoy its first warning of the presence of submarines...