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...Sub Hunters...
...Stotesbury, the Joseph P. Kennedys, the Sumner Welleses, were at Palm Beach. Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague, with Mrs. Hague and daughter Peggy Anne, checked in at Miami Beach. So did the small-fry tourists, the race-track touts, the racketeers both gross and petty. The sub-urbane Town & Country told its readers that simply "everybody" came down before Christmas this year. Miami hotels, turned back to their owners by the Army, were booked solid all the way to the end of the winter season. There were as many ways to break rent ceilings as there are stucco...
...recent morning Liberator B for Baker sighted a surfaced U-boat, bright in the moonlight. Immediately he released depth charges. The sub fired back with cannon, then dived. For 2 ½ hours B for Baker searched for it. saw nothing. Then suddenly R for Roger sighted it again and dove to attack from 60 feet. But Roger's bombs stuck, and on his second try shells from the battling sub wrecked his hydraulic system. Over & over he circled to keep watch on the sub while his gunner slithered in oil trying to fix the bomb releases...
After three hours Lieut. Kenneth Wright, pilot of U.S. Navy Liberator E for Edward, sighted Roger circling the sub, came roaring down to plant his depth charges astraddle the U-boat in face of its heavy gunfire, circled and came back for strafing. Said Lieut. Wright: "We saw a big explosion. A moment later its bow submerged and it started trailing oil. We saw a dead man in the conning tower. When we left after 75 minutes the U-boat was down at the stern and still trailing...
Nine and a half hours after the fight first began, D for Donald found the sub awash, machine-gunned its conning tower as it sank out of sight...