Kiefer, Durand "The Fog of March Fifteenth"

World War 2 “novelette,” set in the days shortly before U.S. entry into the War. Action takes place aboard the “BRIGGS, old four-stack flushdecker of the U.S.N. – now H.M.S. TREMAINE of the Channel Patrol” as the ship plays cat-and-mouse with the Nazi subs and torpedo boats in the fog-shrouded English Channel. The story’s interesting premise: the German invasion of England had actually been underway until a clever ruse by the TREMAINE’s captain convinced the Nazis that a huge British naval armada was barreling up the Channel to annihilate the invaders. As with many stories of this era, Germans are depicted as pompous, gullible and downright stupid. Note that this issue of Adventure features a wonderful period, full-color cover illustrating a wireless operator (with “U.S. Navy” tattooed on his arm) furiously working his radio set in the middle of battle.