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......The wings were high; it was no Condor.

"Alarm!" he yelled. "Dive! Dive!"

There was no time to wait and see if it had spotted the U-boat. The men on the bridge jumped through the hatch as the boat started down.

A scream of pain from the engine room carried above the ordered confusion of the crash dive and brought Dr. Goder running through the maze of men and machines, struggling against the steep down angle. By the time the boat had leveled off, he had reached the injured Maschinistmaat Struwe.

The little finger of his left hand was badly crushed, and Goder needed only the briefest examination before telling the commander that he would have to operate immediately. Narcotics eased the blinding pain, and Goder worked on Struwe's mangled hand while the boat remained submerged and still. The boat lost her speed underwater, but she rode too roughly on the surface for Goder to have even attempted to repair the man's hand, so Schulz kept her submerged until he had finished.

By 2030 hours, the injured machinist was asleep in his bunk, his hand bandaged and the pain dulled by morphine, and U-124 was back on the surface.......

-- Regards,
Ken Deshaies
Newton, New Hampshire