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...Learn to Hate." Anticipating just such political warfare, Mussolini has wrapped a toga of self-righteousness about his sub-Napoleonic figure. More than two decades as the father of 20th-century Fascism have taught him how to play upon the childlike sentiment of millions of his people. While the Allies paused in Tunisia he cunningly launched a hate-the-U.S. campaign which was ridiculous but effective...
...Kill. The Spencer was turning. The port guns ceased. The sub was dead ahead, so close it could be rammed. But there was no need to ram when it could be smashed with gunfire. The starboard guns took up the battle, blazing at close range. The U-boat's conning tower by now was badly smashed. A lone man, his back toward the Spencer, clung desperately to the conning tower as though being crucified. A shell hit him squarely in the back. He crumpled, slumping down over two other corpses on the narrow deck...
...Spencer passed beyond the submarine, firing slackened. A patch of water was alive with struggling figures, black dots surrounded by bright orange life-jackets, bobbing and pitching in the waves. The sub's conning tower was dented and broken. No life could be seen aboard. Waves washed over her decks. She was done...
...help when the Japs made their supreme bid to regain the island, sending a big task force with three or four carriers. Enterprise, another carrier and land-based Army and Marine bombers combined to turn the enemy back; aircraft from Enterprise shot down 30 Jap planes and sank a sub...
...them next ship on a freighter in a huge North Atlantic convoy, Murmansk-bound. Attacked in mid-ocean by a fleet of German submarines, the ship leaves the convoy, but is trailed by one of the U-boats, runs under some Nazi bombers, is finally torpedoed by the dogging sub. Acting as captain in place of the wounded Massey, Bogart sets fire to his own decks, pretends to abandon ship, makes the Germans come to the surface, then rams and sinks them. The freighter limps into port with cargo intact...