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Modern German submarines are as far advanced over the undersea ships of 1914 as modern planes are over planes of World War I. Some of the long-range types can travel 14,520 miles on a single load of fuel. Refueled and reprovisioned by undersea tenders ("milk cows"), they can remain at sea for months at a time. Monstrous metal whales, 220 ft. long with a 20-ft. beam, they carry in their bellies a dozen torpedoes, a crew of 45. When submerged they displace 882 tons (about half the displacement of a typical destroyer...
Thirteen days later Rector was back on duty manning the submarine's battle phones. As souvenirs he had a handful of bent spoons and, preserved in alcohol, the only appendix known to have been removed undersea in enemy waters...
...Burden. Plainly the United Nations are barely holding their own on the sea front-if they are not indeed losing way. According to all signs, the strength of Germany's undersea fleet is increasing. Despite Germany's need of overland transport facilities, submarine building still holds No. 1 priority. Allied bombers, soaring over the great submarine base at Lorient, have been none too effective...
Then came the onslaught: submarine packs, torpedo boats, dive-bombers, torpedo-carrying planes. Details of the action were not revealed, but hour after hour, for several days, in the air, on the surface, undersea, the melee raged...
During the week of July 12, big-laughing Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox laughed off newsmen with optimistic noises. In that very same week, more Atlantic shipping was sunk than in any other week since Nazi Admiral Doenitz (TIME, Feb. 2) launched his well-prepared undersea attack...