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in the early years of the war Donitz realised that keeping his U-boats at sea for as long as possible would greatly increase their chances of success

Arrowhead by Keith Aspinall

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managed to steer them from memory for over an hour to Switzerland where they made a dramatic crash landing only four miles from the German border

so his actual total of victories is recorded at 73

Lightning Strikes 7 Times by Stan Stokes. (B) GLF2 in the early years ofSTK0039B. Lightning Strikes 7 Times by Stan Stokes. The Lockheed P 38 Lightning, called the Fork Tailed Devil by Luftwaffe pilots in Africa, was one of the largest fighter aircraft to see service during WW II. Flight testing of the YP 38 prototype was completed in 1941. The first P 38s put into service were dedicated to the defense of the West Coast following the attack on Pearl Harbor. In the spring of 1942 plans were laid to deploy P 38s in Europe.