Show STALKING the BOATS U-BOATS By Seaman R. R W. W Burke of the U. U S. S S. S A U-boat U that's sl sighted by a lookout lookout look look- out on a destroyer Is almost as good as dono done forU for If U If wo we 0 seo eo cm er we e get el em eni is 13 what wo we sa say American BrItIsh British Brit BrIt- ish and French de dep destroyers destroyers de- de p working together all al are are now hOW and it is pretty hard for I Fritz Friz to show his I periscope a above 1 b o 0 v e. e p water They used to toI I F operate on oil the BurI surface surface sur Bur I face faco a lot Now the they dont don't The Tho ash cans nur lurk Burke havo have done it Ash cans arc are the depth-charges depth that thal we drop overboard overboard overboard over over- board an and wo we call them them ash cans cane be beI because because be- be cause they arc are about the size of a a. a big I I ash can and look very much like one one I remember one day day It dar I It was very I fos foggy when it seemed as though something was In the tho air We Ve were cruising on patrol when we heard a A. number of oC shots close by hy Wo We f couldn't see where the they camo came from Crom but could hear hoar the tho direction the tho tog fog was wa s so thick we could only see a few feet on either cither side of us Suddenly right out of the fog an another another another an- an other destroyer shot acro across s our bow and missed us b by about twenty five twenty yards ards Then we heard more shots We Ve had been hicen cru cruising slowly I lad Just gone Jone aft aC on the tho deck lock house to stand watch atch and I had haO haf hard hardly taken my ray position when we hoard heard a loud explosion I sion right off our stem stern It I shook us all al over and nearly bounced us out of tho water Officers Officers Officers Of Of- I and men mon came camo running j aft af they thought wo we were torpedoed torpedoed- or that one of our ash fash cans had I fallen falen over and torn our stern off of Everybody E wa was relieved rele ed to find we weI I were Intact B By that time we all ni knew what had hal happened one happened one of or our ourde I destroyers do- do had dropped a depth charge e and we were over the explosion We Ve turned tanned about Immediately lately and rung runs up full ful speed We Ve had llad not gone lack hack many yards when we wo came upon a a. aspot aspot spot where there were man many bubbles bubble I coming to the surface oil ol surface oil and greo o o which spread prend over o the water for a I great distance The Th The oil al was so thick it just clung cun to t our sides Wo We knew then thon that somebody somebody some sonic body had got sot a submarine These depth charges es are arc the GR GREATEST GREAT AT- AT EST THINGS EVER INVENTED TO GET SUB SUBMARINES You hardly ever get a a. n U-boat U on the surface now They are very fast You cannot see sec the tho periscope peri pen scope very far ar It ma may be a foot oot or so I out of the water 01 or 0 only a couple of oC Inches and It I is painted light green and gra gray Bray A periscope Is Iser er very hard to distinguish distin In the tho sea tea un unless ss you see seo them rushing through h the water ater then they get up a little wake wake but but even then you ou cannot see that yer very far But If I we can get Iet near tHe spot where a L submarine ine inc goes down the depth charge will wi do dothe dothe 1 the business You Just sit sll on the tho stern and roll rol them over overl At a touch of a button buton on the bridge e too th they y can be released I so they Just roll loll rol of off They arc are set to explode at nt a certain depth I Man Many U-boats U are destroyed th l that it at are arc I never seen n b by the tho destroyer that gets gels I them If I wo we get Iel a 1 report of ot a a submarIno submarine submarine sub sub- marine marIno In a a. certain certin spot we proc proceed ed there at full Cull speed and arc are sometimes able ablo to locate It I b by the bubbles and the streak of lf oil 01 on the water oter otere Wo We e follow that streak freak of DC oil oil oil-go oil oil-go go from one ono oral end to another mother and see sec which end endIs endis I Is moving and drop a n couple of ot ash Hash ashcan I can cans on that ende end eIll We e have often orten followed a streak of 01 oil for or miles mleH and miles mies only to come cometo to the end of It I and anti see nothing there Then wo we knew we had gone to the wrong end Turning we would then go up to the other end ond and find the streak moving drop a couple of ash cans and up came the bubbles and oil The Tho U-boat U never know knew what hat hit bit hi him we never neve saw him but we knew we wo had hac got a sub Wo We 0 never captured a submarine but we saw ono oro ole captured by our sister ship She dropped a u depth bomb on onIt onit onit it and the submarine came to the surface sur- sur face faco and when they saw tho the two de destroyers destroyers destroyers de- de thc they surrendered It I Is er very seldom a submarine Is captured they generally open the tho seacock and let them go o. o 1 Our sister destroyer brought in the tho Germans and auth put them onto our flag fas boat boat about about 30 10 to 10 of or them The They were about 19 or 20 years cars old big sturdy bronze Germans with blue eyes es blonde hair and ant ve very military The Tile captain of or the submarine was a young oung man who had been In the United States The first thin thing he asked about was the United States It I Is a mistake to give the impression slon that the tho tie submarine crews arc are old or Inefficient men men or or that tho the enemy lemy Is worn woin out That isn't fO so at all al You have havo something to contend with when you 0 are up against tho the submarine |