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...ships. The U.S., habitually mum on the subject of U-boat sinkings, last week revealed for the first time the capture of a submarine contingent: the Coast Guard cutter Icarus last June depth-charged a U-boat, blew it to the surface, rescued 33 of the crew. The shattered sub sank into the depths which German underseamen call "God's Cellar...
Flying Officer Brant Howell of Manitoba turned his Sunderland from a probable "kill" to attack a surfaced sub with his guns. The sub's deck gun fired back, When the U-boat crash-dived, Howell saw the abandoned Nazi gun crew floundering in the sea. They soon had their submarine for company. Reported Howell: "Four depth charges exploded within a few feet of the stern and the last we saw of the U-boat was six feet of the afterpart sticking out almost vertically from the water...
...account might have added that the gun crew, volunteers all and, according to U.S. Navy tradition, messmen, had emptied the entire contents of their "ready box" (32 shells) into the sub in one minute. Exclaimed a Coast Guard officer: "Those boys are one of the best gun crews you ever...
...NROTC men not graduating this month will spend the fortnight from June 12 to June 26 gaining practical experience in various activities of the First Naval District, including a week on a sub-chaser, Captain George N. Barker, professor of Naval Science and Tactics, announced last night...
...this has happened in varying degree to all other airplane makers. To achieve the present production, Henry Ford himself was forced to change a basic policy. When Willow Run was built, Ford mistakenly vetoed all Army suggestions that some parts for the Liberators be produced elsewhere. Now the sub-assemblies are being farmed out in the Detroit area...