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Last week the activities of Nazi sub packs had the United Nations worried. On the heels of Winston Churchill's admission that the Battle of the Atlantic had "worsened"', a London spokesman commented: "Our end of the battle . . . is going pretty well, but the United States...
With its strength spread thin, the U.S. Navy had a job on its hands to keep the sub packs from blocking sea lanes to the south. But it was determined that it would not fall in with Nazi plans by recalling U.S. destroyer fleets to home waters. Last week the Navy was given command of all anti-submarine activities off both the East and the West Coasts, which brought under its jurisdiction several air units of the U.S. Army...
...Axis sub crippled a rickety, old armed U.S. freighter, loosed a parachute flare to illuminate the scene. A contrary wind caught the chute, pushed it back over the sub, shed sufficient light for a carrot-topped Navy gunner on the ship to pound three shells into its conning tower. Survivors insisted that the raider went down with all hands...
...sights too low, left one end of the building open for extensions. Without any nod from Washington, he turned an engineer loose on a V12 liquid-cooled engine of his own. He started putting up Willow Run on the sole basis of a relatively small order for sub-assemblies...
Survivors of a sunken U.S. tanker told of a submarine that callously ran down two lifeboats and a liferaft. But another sub commander gallantly permitted a fully lighted neutral vessel to approach a sinking freighter and pick up survivors...