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by Michael Gannon


  Chicago Tribune. 93

  “Chop” (Change of Operational Control) line. 84-85

  Churchill, Winsion, xix. 83, 84. 88, 167. 298-99. 310, 338, 339, 346, 393, 418, 435, 462

  Ctltvaira (ship), 261-63, 271

  Ciphers

  British

  German breaking of, 68, 440. 456

  given to U.S. ESF, 173

  German, 132. 133-35. See also HYDRA: TETIS; TRITON

  British capture of, 151-52

  for officers only, 144-45, 152, 198-99, 225

  Polish work on. 150-51

  Japanese, U.S. breaking of, 161-63

  City of Atlanta (ship), 256-58. 271

  Civil Air Patrol (CAP), 179, 343. 355-57

  Clausen. Rolf, 246-47

  Clough, Arthur Hugh, 431

  Coamo (ship), 249, 264

  Coastal Picket Patrol. 352-55

  Cobb, Samuel Leroy, 400

  Coimbra (ship). 234-35

  Cole, USS, 203

  Colibrí (eau de cologne), 4, 193

  Connally, Tom, 267

  Continent (ship), 224

  Convoys

  Africa to England

  submarine attacks on, 42, 46-47, 50-51

  ciphers of, cracked by Germans, 68,440,456

  cross-Atlantic, xvi, xvii

  great 1943 battle, 388, 395-96

  Jan. 1942 U.S. troop convoy, 238-39

  1941 U.S. escort to Iceland, 84

  1942 lull in attacks, 266-67

  after Pearl Harbor, 177

  submarine attacks on, 26-28, 31-32, 56-59, 90-92

  German wireless reporting of, 46, 49, 51, 58, 68, 89

  Sims’ World War I advocacy of, 462

  U.S. coastal, 74, 180, 338, 340, 357, 384-88, 392

  U-boats evaded by, from cracking German cipher, 135,” 152

  Coolidge, Calvin, 174

  Coral, U.S.S., 176

  Corpus Christi (Texas), 351

  Corrientes (ship), 45

  Cortelazzo (ship), 293

  Corvettes, Flower-class, 90

  Courageous, HMS, 187

  Cremer, Peter Erich, 294-95, 455, 461

  Creteu, Nick, 262

  Croóme, HMS, 57

  Cruising Club of America. 353

  Cubano (ship), 33

  Culebra (ship), 286-87, 288

  Curacao, 308, 349

  Currier, Prescott H., 443

  Cvclops, HMS, 61

  Cyclops (ship), 62,208-13, 221,412

  Dahlgren, USS, 349, 366-74

  Dallas, USS, 190, 448

  Danielson, Henry, 218

  Das Boot (movie), 49

  Davenport, Theron P., 335

  Dayrose (ship), 225-26

  Davtona Beach (Florida), 357

  Decatur. USS, 90

  Declaration of Panama, 82

  Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships (DEMSs). 433

  Degaussing, 228

  Delaware Bay. xvii Denmark Strait, 88

  Denning, Norman (“Ned”), 155

  Depth charges. See also Airplanes; Destroyers

  from British motor torpedo boat, 333

  damage by, and distance from U-boat, 49

  maximum setting for, 439

  U.S., 189, 392

  from Q ship, 324

  small-craft use of, 352

  Depth manometer (Tiefenmesser), 104, 126, 472

  Destroyer escorts (DEs), 392

  Destroyers

  British, depth charges from, 27-28, 32, 39, 48_49, 5i_52

  Canadian, 203

  U.S.

  depth charges from, 85, 367-68

  eliminated from 1940 bill, 177

  first sinking of U-boats on East Coast bv, 380-82

  first sunk in U.S. waters, 309-10

  first sunk in World War II, 91-92

  Mark-VI and VIII depth charges of, 189

  poor distribution of, 266-67, 345-46

  sent to U.S. East Coast, 189-90, 237-40

  traded for bases, 83

  Deutschland (German pocket battleship), 113. 316

  Devereux, James P., 222

  Devonshire, HMS, 439

  Dies, Martin, 444

  Dimitrios Inglessis (ship). 144-48, 153, 156

  Dione (Coast Guard cutter), 176

  Dirigibles, 182

  Distilled seawater on U-boats, 116

  Dix (Coast Guard cutter), 176

  Dodge. John M., 264-65

  DOLPHIN (British name for HYDRA), 151, 426. See also HYDRA

  “Donald Duck Navy,” 384

  Dönitz, Karl, 24, 28, 39, 54, 58, 89, 144, 179, 229, 348, 378, 393-94, 408, 433, 467

  background of, 62, 71-74

  dailv routine of, 67-69

  double-coding systems of, 131-32, 152

  East Coast submarines withdrawn by, 388

  farewell wireless by, 397

  and Hardegen’s injury, 78-79

  and Hardegen’s Mar.-Mav 1942

  cruise, 313, 398, 404-5

  as head of German Reich, 295, 416

  Operation Drumbeat and, 414

  Hardegen congratulated, 280, 283

  Hardegen’s return, 300-302

  interest in progress, 133-34, 226, 252-53

  orders to commanders, 79-81

  planning, xv-xvii, 97-98, 467

  portrait of, in British OIC, 155, 159

  on reasons for loss of U-boat war, 395

  submariners’ loyalty to, 77-78

  as war criminal, 416

  war diaries faked bv, 52-53, 416

  Doolittle, James H., 183

  Dorsetshire, HMS, 439

  Dowdy, Earl. 256-58

  Driscoll, Agnes Myer, 162

  Drum, Hugh A., 172

  Dubuque, USS, 176 Duncan, Donald B., 356

  Dupont, USS, 190, 448

  Dyer, George C, 170, 340

  Eagle, USS (Wave; later USS Captor). 305-7, 329

  Eagle boats, 176-77, 310, 347, 387

  Eagle Fishing Company, 304

  East Coast. See United States—East Coast of Eastern Sea Frontier (ESF). See United States Navy—Eastern Sea Frontier

  Eck, Heinz, xx Eckermann, Hans, 123

  Edwards, Richard S., 340, 341, 356, 464

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 391

  Elizabeth City (North Carolina) Naval Air

  Station, 181, 182, 350

  Ellsberg, Edward, 187

  Ellyson, USS, 190, 220-21, 239, 448

  Emden (German light cruiser), 72-73

  Empire Bison (ship), 33

  Empire Gem (ship), 270, 271

  Empire Kingfisher (ship), 296, 450

  Empire Steel (ship), 320-22, 376

  Endrass, Engelbert, 30, 32. 68, 440

  Enigma. 150-51. See also Schlüssel M cipher machines

  Ericksson, Albert, 376 Esparta (ship), 336-37 Esso Baton Rouge (ship), 335-36 Esso Bayonne (ship). 376, 377 Evelyn (ship). See: Asterion. USS Exeter. HMS. 222

  Färber, William S., 303, 305

  Farley, Louis C, 222

  Fathometer, 102, 147, 333

  Fennell, Robert S., Jr.. 256-58

  Fernandina (Florida), 358

  F4F-3 Wildcats, 393

  Firecrest (ship), 27

  Fleet Sonar School (U.S.), 384

  Fleming, Ian, 164

  Flowerdown (England), 149-50

  Floyd Bennett Naval Air Station, 182

  Folkers, Ulrich. 2, 79, 133, 144, 199, 201, 212,269, 271-72,296,417

  Forstmann, Walter. 71

  Fort Myers (Florida), 351

  Foundation Franklin (tug), 145-47

  Fraatz, Georg-Werner, 87

  Francis E. Powell(ship). 272

  Frank. Wolfgang. 378

  Frauenheim, Fritz, 30. 32

  Frederick Lee (Coast Guard cutter), 176

  Freetown (Sierra Leone), 41-42, 45, 51, 124, 138, 141

  Freikorps Dönitz, xix

  Friar Rock (ship), 226

  Friedeburg, Hans-Georg von, 39-40, 78-79. 408,416

  Friedman, Willi
am F., 163

  Frisco (ship), 226

  Frobel, Karl (“Langspleiss”), xi, 17, 113, 115, 200

  Fuhrmann, Hans, 65

  Fuhrmann, Rudolf (“Kutscher”), 113, 207, 233

  Galatea. HMS, 200

  Gallup Poll, 83, 84, 89

  Galveston (Texas), xvi, 387

  Ganda (ship), 52, 432

  Gare Loch (Scotland), 189

  Geer, Vasco R., 365

  Gelhaus, Harald, 464

  Georgsen, Paul, 218

  German Navy. See also Submarines-German

  air arm of, 21-22, 406-7, 465

  Berlin facilities of, destroyed, 408

  1899-1900 plans for in- sion of U.S., 69-70

  midshipman candidac n, 18-21

  Torpedo School, 408

  Germany

  U.S. seizure of assets id ships of, 84

  undeclared war betw n U.S. and, 87-95

  war declared on U.S. by, 98-100

  Gibraltar, xvii, 51, 65, 76, 92, 98, 133, 159

  Giese, Otto, 465

  Giradeau, Frank C, 334

  Cleaves, USS, 190. 448

  Gleditsch, Einar, 276-77

  Gneisenau (German battle cruiser), 96, 253, 438

  Godfrey, John A., 164-65, 223

  Godt, Eberhard, 65, 67. 72, 74, 77, 79, 81, 133,296, 301,405

  as German commander of submarines, 394

  Goodwill Service messages, 314 Gorch Fock (ship), 19-20

  Goring, Hermann, 22, 407

  Gotennafen/Wilhelmshaven, 417

  Gould, Oliver H., 365

  Government Code and Cipher School (Great

  Britain), 150

  Graves, Abed, 57

  Great Britain. See Royal Air Force; Royal Navy Green, Joseph D. G., 210. 213

  Green. William A., 264 Green Island (ship), 269

  Greenland, 59, 60, 84

  Greenland Gap, 393 Greer. USS, 86-87, 89-91

  Greger, Eberhard, 380

  Grenada, tourist maps used for invasion of, 440-41 GrOner handbook, 138, 441, 469 Gulfamerica (ship), 343, 364-66 Gulf Dawn (ship; later USS Big Horn). 330

  Gulf of Mexico, 174,347-51,462

  Guthrie, Woody, 92

  Gwin. USS, 190,238,448

  Halcvon (ship), 295

  Halifax (Nova Scotia), 199, 387

  Hamburg (Germany), 68, 76

  Hamilton, USS. 268-69

  Harnisch. Ernst. 34, 37, 39

  Hampton Roads, 252-53, 265, 298. 387

  Hansen. Harold. 218-19

  Hardegen, Barbara. 23, 62, 63, 130, 159, 408, 409,418

  Hardegen, Detlev, 465

  Hardegen, Ingeborg, 465

  Hardegen, Jörg, 130. 159, 465

  Hardegen, Klaus-Reinhard, 23, 62, 130, 159, 465

  Hardegen, Paul, 409

  Hardegen, Reinhard, xi-xii, xviii-xxii

  advice on American patrols by, 405-6

  aggressiveness and risk-taking by, 16-17, 19, 66, 120, 148, 159, 258-60, 313, 441

  background of. 17-24, 158-59

  plane-crash injury, 22, 39-40, 66. 78-79, 315,408

  British imprisonment of, 409

  crew’s comments on, 16-17

  “de-Nazification” of, 409

  as Gruppe commander, 80, 138-39

  Knight s Cross awarded to, 283, 299, 300

  Oak Leaf Cluster. 401, 406

  later life of, 418-19

  as Marine infantry commander in last days, 408-9

  number of torpedoes launched by, 375

  record of ships sunk by, xxi, 261, 377

  on U-/2J. See U-123

  on U-124. 24-33

  on U-/47, 34-39

  Harding, Warren G., 174 Harpalyce (ship), 27

  Harrington, Thomas J.. 272

  Hartenstein, Werner, 308

  Hay, Adams J., 264, 265

  “Hedgehog” (contact bomb projector), 392

  HEIMISCH code, 426

  Heimsoht & Rinke (cipher firm), 134

  Helgoland, 35, 39

  Hemingway, Ernest, 354

  Hess, Harry H.. 384

  Hessler, Günter, 42, 133, 295

  Heydemann, Günther, 292, 293

  Heyse, Ulrich, 77, 347, 358

  Hicks, Harry L., 306, 329

  High Frequency/Direction Finding (HF/DF), 150, 162, 164, 341,384, 393

  Hilary P. Jones, USS, 190, 238, 448

  Hinsch, Hans-Peter, 433

  Hinsley, Harry, 156

  Hirsacker, Heinz, 52

  Hitler, Adolf, xv, 63, 70, 298, 310-11, 316, 339

  German Navy and, 74-75, 96, 97, 395, 406r7

  Hardegen’s lecturing of, 406-7

  Hardegen’s Oak Leaf Cluster awarded by, 401,406-7

  picture of, in all submarines, 120

  war on U.S. declared by, 98-100

  war with U.S. first avoided by, 81-83, 85-86,89

  Hoffmann, Rudolf, 2, 3, 5, 13, 14, 101-3, 106-13. 115-20, 126, 130, 144-45, 193, 194, 204, 206-7, 216. 233-34, 252, 254-56, 259-60, 263, 278, 282, 283, 285,301,311

  Holland, Spessard, 366

  Holz (“Kapitän”), 113

  Holzer, Rudolf, 311, 323-26

  Hood, HMS, 95

  Hooligan Navy, 354

  Hoover, John H., 308, 349

  Hopkins, Harry, 339

  Home, Frederick J., 180, 303, 305, 457

  Hornet, USS. 269

  Hororata (ship), 401

  Houston (Texas), 351

  Howe, Hamilton W., 381

  “Huff Duff,” 150, 162, 164, 341, 384, 393

  Hufnagl, Max (“Lackl”), xi, 113,200

  Hughes, L. J, 213

  Hutchins, Thomas B., 246

  Hvalfiordur (Iceland), 189

  HYDRA cipher, 134-35. 151. 152, 341, 342, 426, 470

  Hydrophones, 48, 117-18, 254, 384, 470

  Icarus (Coast Guard cutter), 181, 382-83, 434

  Iceland, 149, 449

  U.S. Marines in, 84, 238 Idaho, USS. 88, 448

  Ingersoll, Royal E., 171, 177, 237-40, 346, 349-50,353, 385,412,413,415

  Ingraham, USS, 190, 238, 448

  Irene Myrtle (ship; later USS Irene Forsyte), 330

  Isaksen, Magnus, 219

  here (ship), 5-7. 11-13, 33. 52, 61, 300, 404

  Isla de Tenerife (ship), 224

  Italy, Hardegen in, 62

  Jackson, George W., 364 Jackson (Coast Guard cutter), 176

  Jacksonville (Florida) Municipal Airport, 364

  Jacksonville (Florida) Naval Air Station, 362

  Jacksonville Beach (Florida), 359, 361-63,366

  Jacob Jones, USS, 309-10, 346

  Japan

  codes of, U.S. breaking of, 161-63

  defeat of Germany needed for defeat of, 397-98

  false reports of raids on U.S. by, 167

  1942 U.S. raid on, 183

  Pearl Harbor attack of. See Pearl Harbor

  in Tripartite Pact, 94, 97, 99

  U.S. Navy’s 1941 prediction of Soviet

  invasion by, 160,414

  U.S. submarine warfare vs., xx, xxi, 72, 90

  Japanese American relocation, 167

  Jester, Maurice D., 382

  Jodl, Alfred, 407 Joseph N. Teal (ship), 395 Jouett, USS, 448

  Joyce, E. T., 303

  Junker, Ottoheinrich, 336

  K-/96 (British gunboat), 133

  Kaeding, Walter, xi, 418

  on Dec.l941-Jan. 1942 cruise, 14, 17, 49-50, 102, 115, 125, 127, 130-32, 142, 199, 205, 229-30, 236, 281, 286

  on Mar-May 1942 cruise, 313, 314, 320, 325, 331

  Kaiser, Henry, 395

  Kalbfus, Edward C, 225

  Kals, Ernst, 66, 133, 144, 199, 226-27, 270-72,296. 309,417 Karlsruhe (German light cruiser), 20, 95, 137

  Kaufman, James L. (’ Reggie”), 352 Kearnv, USS, 90. 91, 190, 448

  Kelly, Percy A., 248-49

  Kersley, Leslie Webber, 209-10

  Key West (Florida), 318, 345, 347, 350-52, 384, 387

  Kiel (Germany), 19, 23, 33, 39. 68. 76, 95, 408
, 438

  Kimmell, Husband E, 414

  King, Ernest J.

  as Atlantic Fleet commander, 84, 87-88, 169, 175

  background of, 168-69

  asCOMINCH-CNO, 170

  assessment of culpability, 390-93, 396, 398, 412-14

  coastal convoys, 384-86, 388

  ONI denigrated, 170-71

  Operation Drumbeat and, 211-13, 239-41, 299, 338-42, 344-47

  policv toward use of small craft, 179-81, ‘351-57 0

  ships, 304-5

  retirement and subsequent life of, 415

  King George V, HMS, 164

  Kirk. Alan G., 160-61. 164, 165, 223, 443

  Klinger (“Icke”), 113.200,281

  Knowles, Kenneth A., 341-42, 397, 412, 442

  Knox, Frank, 169, 267, 350

  König, Paul, 18, 141

  Kormoran (German auxiliary cruiser), 293

  Korsholm (ship), 376-77 Kosmos II (ship), 276-79

  Kretchmer, Felix W., 244-47

  Kretschmer, Otto, 30, 32, 46, 56, 68

  Krogstad, Arnold N., 222

  Kurski & Kruger (cipher firm), 134

  Kurtz, Thomas R., 306, 327

  Lads Hawkins (ship), 247-49, 274

  Lady Rosemary, HMS, 346

  La Guardia, Fiorello, 185

  Lakehurst (New Jersey), 182

  Langley Field (Virginia), 183

  Lansdale, USS, 190, 238, 448

  Lansdowne, USS, 384

  Lantana (Florida), 357

  La Pallice, 24, 40, 67. 295, 417

  La Rochelle, 24, 67

  Larsen, Wilfred, 287-90, 418-19

  Latislaus, Karl (“Little Karl”; “Karlchen”), xi

  on Dec. 1941-Jan. 1942 cruise, 16-17, 113, 114, 194-95,277,282, 286

  on Mar-May 1942 cruise, 312, 315-16, 324, 369, 370, 375

  Layton, Edwin T., 411, 443

  Lea. USS, 190, 448

  Leahy, William D., 447

  Lee, Willis A., Jr.. 355

  Legwen, Glenn W, 306. 328

  Lehigh (ship), 91

  Lehman, John F., Jr.. 163, 443

  Lehmann-Willenbrock, Heinrich, 23

  Leigh, Humphrey de Veré, 394

  Leigh Light, 394

  Leighton, Frank T., 170, 211-12, 412, 413

  Lemp, Fritz-Julius, 28, 53, 68, 152

  Lemuel Burrows (ship), 344

  Lend-Lease Act, 83-84

  Leonard, Edwin Madison, 457

  Leslie (ship), 376

  Leyte Gulf, Battle of, 446

  Liebe, Heinrich, 32

  Liefere (ship), 331-34

  Linder, Hans-Heinz, 433

  Lion, the. See Dönitz, Karl Little, Sir Charles C. J., 351

  Livermore, USS. 90, 190, 238, 448

  Lockheed Hudson (A-29). 351, 380, 385

  Londonderry (North Ireland), 189 “Loose Lips Sink Ships,” 274

  Lorenz, Walter (“Laura”), 49, 114, 311, 325, 326

  Lorient (France)

  distance to U.S. from, xvi

  German capture and buildup of, 24, 28-29, 40-41

  Kals’ command at, 417

  possible sabotage at, 126, 127

  U-/23′s departures from, 1-13, 311-312

  U-123′% returns to, 299-300. 403-4

 

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