Wolf-Pack Tactics
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Titolo
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Wolf-Pack Tactics
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Article Title and/or Image Caption
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Wolf-Pack Tactics. Here's How the U-boat Hunts Its Prey
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FOREMOST threat to the U.S. as a fighting ally on foreign soils, and as an arsenal of democracy that actually delivers the goods, is Germany's great wolf packs of the deep—her fleet of some 700 modern U-boats. With a surface speed of 17 1/2 knots, which is as fast as many ocean liners, and a submerged speed of eight knots—at which tankers and cargo ships often cruise—the modern undersea raider is a very different proposition from that which prowled the oceans in the first World War. The average U-boat now plying the seven seas is about 221 feet long and capable of cruising for six weeks or more without refueling. Above deck, in its superstructure, and below deck it can carry a total of from 12 to 14 torpedoes. These can be launched at enemy ships from four tubes in the bow and one in the stern.
Drawings on these pages, made by G. H. Davis for the Illustrated London News, show some of the tricks employed by undersea raiders in concealing themselves while they stalk their prey. The Battle of the Atlantic is largely a matter of matching wits with these undersea wolves.
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eng
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Data di rilascio
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1943-07
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pagine
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76-77
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Diritti
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
