Fettes, Jonathan "Nazis is Mugs"
How can you miss with a title like “Nazis Is Mugs”? And Adventure Magazine’s tag line is no slacker, either:
"The SEMERANG ought to have had an escort, or have been in convoy at least. But in war time you take what you can get. We got Doolittle, who didn’t look no more like a quartermaster than a pimple looks like the Rock of Gibraltar, but by the end of the voyage we wouldn’t have traded him for six destroyers with a battlewagon thrown in."
Set aboard a British tramp freighter (the SEMERANG) traveling unescorted westbound to the United States from Cardiff, “ ... nodding down at the wet Atlantic where submarines is thicker than cabbage in a Victory garden.” John Doolittle, the ship’s scrawny quartermaster tells one and all that “Nazis is mugs,” i.e., not too bright in the intellect department. Doolittle, who been torpedoed many times before on the Atlantic run, proceeds to come up with a series of ingenious tricks to hoodwink the gullible Hun. Indeed, by tale’s end, the SEMERANG has actually taken on and bested a German U-boat which had foolishly attacked the ship thinking her an easy mark.