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...boat pack was somewhere around. Off tootled the old (1919) four-stack destroyer Borie, found a sub. Her straining, aged sides shook as her depth charges burst...
...unarmored merchant ship equipped with an aircraft landing deck: "Scratch one pig-boat-am searching for more." The Borie found another huge pigboat on the surface. Cried a signalman: "My God, what is it, the Bremen?" In ten to 30 seconds the Bone's guns swept the sub's deck. The destroyer leaped forward to ram, went partly over, her bow straddling the U-boat's forward deck. There she stuck. For ten feverish minutes the Borie poured metal from her 4-in. guns, her tommy guns, shotguns and pistols at the Nazis and their sub...
...straining, pulled out of the trap, still seaworthy. For more than an hour the two ships fought each other "like a couple of tomcats in the dark," the U-boat hurling torpedoes at the destroyer, the destroyer blazing away with her guns. At last, her superstructure shot away, the sub exploded and sank...
...Borie, holed by ramming the sub, was mortally wounded. Her engine-room crew had worked neck-deep in water to keep her going during the fight. They had used cigaret-lighter fluid to keep the auxiliary radio engine going. The next night the crew was ordered off the ship. Twenty-seven crewmen lost their lives in the freezing North Atlantic. Friendly shells sank the Borie...
...Istanbul sources said Hitler's sub rosa nickname is now "Der Irreführer" (The Misleader); peace parades have been staged in thoroughly bombed Hanover and Wiener-Neustadt; an opposition section is growing up inside the Nazi Party, with Himmler and Goebbels ready to sell Hitler out if they or the Army generals can put over a separate peace with Russia -a hope which vanished last week...