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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that U-30 sank the first ship in World War II on 3 September 1939 when she torpedoed the British liner Athenia, just 10 hours after Britain declared war on Germany?
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Among the various copyedits, I have added an 'umlaut' (two dots) above the 'O' in Dönitz's name. All the references that I have seen have his name spelt this way.
This phrase appears in para three of the 'First patrol and the sinking of the Athenia' section:
"Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and the American naval attaché..." Who was the American naval attaché? He should be named at first mention - i.e. "the American naval attaché, Hiram Z. Mickelburger" and thereafter just "Mickelburger" as Raeder is so mentioned. The trouble is , I don't know who the American naval attaché was.
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