The moral effect of depth charges on U-boat crews is Intensified by the Knowledge, from bitter experience, that the Royal Navy can detect and hunt them with an effelency never dreamt of in the last war.
It is when a submarine—short of vital supplies, such 28 torpedoes, fuel food and. fresh water—tries to get home that the vitality of her crew gat Its lowest. Tt Is then that a Usboat, faces its greatest ordeal. Not only does the Royal Navy harass Usboats on their hunting grounds on ocean trade routes, but it is busily engaged in closing routes to thei bolt-holes, 'Operations of wr patrols make me centranees to the Noith Seo exceeding ly hazardous to an enemy submarine, while the passage homewards, once in the North Sea, is made' more dangerous by our patrolling surface vessels and alreraft.—Reuter,
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