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...Wolf Pack. Two years ago this week Karl Doenitz declared that "it makes no difference to the present-day German U-boat fleet' whether British ships sail alone or are convoyed. . . . The truth is that the danger increases for neutral ships when they are members of a British convoy." But as U.S. strength showed up in British convoys, Karl Doenitz changed his mind, shrewdly withdrew a large part of his U-boat fleet into his native Baltic, emerged with a new, radical offensive technique known to the Germans as the Rudelsystem, to the Allies as the "wolf pack...
Another favorite Doenitz variation on this theme: the wolf-pack leader singles out one ship in a convoy, draws the escort's attention to the single encounter while the rest of the pack, often operating on the surface in the dark, move in on the unprotected merchant units...
British patience was strained. The London Daily Express called the civilian and military defenders of Malaya "a pack of whiskey-swilling planters and military birds of passage." The only answer: The Aussies had not yet begun to fight...
Though you would never guess it from its expression, a mule, whether pack, draft or riding animal, costs more than a horse. A riding horse for the Army costs around $162, a pack or riding mule around $184. From its hybrid ancestry, the mule inherits some sturdily pig-tailed virtues. It is as tough, wise and sure-footed as the ass, as strong and willing as the horse. Under fire, when horses go mad with fear, mules wait philosophically until led to safety...
...sides during World War II. The Italians, who used to buy 1,000 U.S. mules a year, used the beast constantly in Ethiopia, honored it afterward with a monument in a park in Rome. The Germans also favor the U.S. mule, and wherever their 800,000 horses go, the pack mule goes too. The British Army in India adds hundreds of U.S. mules every year to its thousands already in service...