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...revised one historical point: the Greer, which the U.S. public had believed attacked by a U-boat without provocation, was in fact attacked while she was dogging a submarine. The destroyer was heading for Iceland with mail, passengers and freight, he wrote, when a British patrol plane reported a sub ten miles dead ahead...
...Greer picked up the U-boat on her detecting apparatus, followed it, keeping astern. The British plane dropped four depth charges and pulled out for home, probably short of gas. For more than three hours the Greer hung on, broadcast the sub's position-probably cursing the failure of British destroyers to turn up-but making no attack, for at that time the shoot-on-sight order had not been issued. The Greer was following her instructions of spotting and making known the presence of a sea raider in the Western Hemi sphere...
...destroyer had begun to wheel, was steaming swiftly toward the spot where she had seen the impulse bubble. Over the spot the men on her fantail dumped eight depth charges. They sent up green geysers in the chill air. But the Greer could still hear the sub under...
...claim that a convoy had been attacked after it entered Germany's combat zone, that ten freighters and two "enemy destroyers" had been sunk. The location was close to the spot where the Kearny was hit. But the fact was that the Kearny, like the Greer, was out sub-hunting when...
...liveliest of the 10 committees and sub-committees that carry on the work of PBH is the Speakers' Committee which sponsored several talks in the West End House last year, along with some 150 others in high schools and settlement houses on subjects ranging from public health (by Med School students) to life in the Orient (by an undergraduate from Japan). Magicians, clowns, musicians, and other entertainers recruited by the Speakers' Committee filled the entertainment side of the ledger...