Akin peered at the journals from above, trying to work out the scrawlings upside-down. It wasn’t much use, the foriegn language mixed with the almost archaic looking texts confused anything he tried to grasp, but he did notice how much difference there was between the text at the top of the page and the bottom….
Category: U-Boat
U-Boat Part 33
Burton is a traitor Operation Wormwood is not about destabilizing America with a communist plot, it isn’t about breaking America’s back. It is about saving the best German scientists we can smuggle out. The war is lost, it has been lost since Rommel was pushed out of Afrika, since Paulus capitulated East, and certainly since the Atlantic…
U-Boat Part 32
Ke couldn’t put down Kessler’s letter to Sajer. She paced around the room, looking from the letter to the file Kessler had left to his Kaptain. She had to tell Akin, she had to alert everyone. She looked at the clock on the wall and wondered if the commander was an hour into his nap…
U-Boat Part 31
Akin marveled at how quickly Wells and Perry seemed to fall asleep. In his mind he imagined their brains being able to enter a hibernation mode instantly and the bodies being dragged down into slumber so effortlessly. He had loaned the pair his cabin and spare cots so they could rest up, three hours hardly seemed enough…
U-Boat Part 30
The conversation had gone hilariously. Perry contacted his liason officer and tried to explain that he was going to need every favor in the book so that he could be believed. “Yea, yea that’s right. Nazi zombies in diver suits and a ghost U Boat headed for New York..” Wells leaned forward on the railing,…
U-Boat Part 29
“Commander to the bridge, commander to the bridge.” Akin looked up at the intercom box and then back to the others, and then to his watch. They were nearing the harbor and it was time to start preparing the ship to dock, offload, and debfrief. His mind raced for a moment with everything that was…
U-Boat Part 28
Ke visibly flinched at Akin swearing, Perry saw the reaction and guessed that it was highly unusual for both of them. “You speak nerd, sir?” Wells was trying to push past the awkward moment and get to the details. Akin held a sheet of paperwork up and offered it to Ke, “You’re medical, you can…
U-Boat Part 27
Akin made his way toward they galley for coffee, his mind awash in memories of his grandfather. He tried to recall how long the old man languished in hospital before finally giving in to the pneumonia in his lungs. The man went out of the world so quietly and yet the world he grew up…
U-Boat Part 26
June 10, 1944 Kaptain Sajer U-5918 Brunhilde Morale among the men is atrocious. News from back home has been worse and worse by the day, it seems the Allies finally sprung their attack across the Channel from England and swept the Army and the SS. All the hard work from the lads in the East will soon have…
U-Boat Part 25
In a spare, private birthing, the crate had been left next to a wide map reading desk. Map reading desks come complete with the giant magnifying lens with built in illuminator for navigators to plot fine details into ornately drawn topographical charts. Ke pulled the chair in close and reached for the first book in…