Breyfogle, William Arthur "The Day's Catch."

World War 2 tale. An armed German raider, posing as a Danish-flagged freighter, lures a British destroyer to doom off the Atlantic coast of Donegal in neutral Ireland. After taking the destroyer’s few survivors as prisoners of war, the vessel turns fire upon Irish fishermen in the vicinity who’d witnessed the incident, slaughtering several of the men. This proves to be a costly mistake: surviving Irish fishermen vow immediate revenge. They take it by luring the Nazi ship to a rocky grounding which turns the vessel and her crew helpless — in other words, by turning the Germans into the Irish fishermen’s “day’s catch.”. By tale’s end, the Germans face prospect of immediate capture and internment by their English foe. As a piece of World War 2 popular fiction, Breyfogle’s story is of interest for his almost-stock propaganda portrayal of Germans as brutal, bloodthirsty and merciless when in a position of power — and cowardly when the tables are turned against them.