This was the signal that Admiral Donitz sent to the commanders of
the 21 U-boats of the Markgraf wolf-pack on 9 September 1941 just
before the US entered the war. Sixty-three merchant ships; a number
old and dilapidated and all slow and heavy-laden with vital
supplies from the United States for the United Kingdom, were strung
out in 12 columns abreast, covering 25 miles of inhospitable ocean.
They set sail from Nova Scotia at a time when the German U-boats
were sinking more than one hundred ships a month and the US Navy
could do nothing but stand-by and watch (at least officially). The
convoy's escort of one destroyer and three corvettes of the Royal
Canadian Navy, all untried in combat, was hopelessly outclassed
when the battle for SC42 commenced. The battle lasted for seven
days and covered 1,200 miles of ocean. First hand accounts by
participants on both sides add interest and drama. The true story
of U-571.
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