Word: underseas
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...similar to the German choice not to press the U-boat war. The Germans still have many U-boats. Some day, perhaps when the second front is launched, they will be thrown in as a wolf pack, exceeding in size any that has ever struck before. But the undersea war has become so tough for the Germans that they have had to limit operations sharply in order to preserve their U-boat fleet...
Like many another Allied expert, Percy Nelles apparently was convinced that, despite the recent success of antisub measures in the Atlantic, the morale of the German crewmen in the dangerous, uncomfortable undersea service is showing no sign of cracking...
...copy gets beaten out on the portable typewriter, gets trimmed by the censor with his little looseleaf notebook of directives, gets whisked to the cable office, flicks undersea in dits and dots. And the cable editor fights it out with the city editor in the city room, where the phones keep ringing and the rewrite men step into the booths to take the stuff from the stringers in the corner drugstores, and the presses are booming downstairs on the early edition, and cigaret smoke hazes above the grey men with the eyeshades in the slot. And the photograph forms itself...
Lost: the U.S. Navy's largest submarine, the 14-year-old Argonaut. A giant mine layer, 381 feet long, displacing 2,710 tons, she carried two 6-in. guns, a complement of 102 officers & men. She was the sixth undersea craft which the Navy has admitted losing since the war began...
...send an SOS to U.S. Admiral William Halsey-"by means which we cannot make public." He replied by sending a submarine to rescue them. For four days, until taken off by a patrol ship, they led their sisterly lives, said the rosary in the cramped, metallic quarters of the undersea craft...