The full story of a great all-Negro gun crew of the U.S. Coast Guard was told for the first time last week on CBS' radio program The Man Behind the Gun.
The program re-enacted the Coast Guard cutter Campbell's 12-hour scrap with six U-boats in the North Atlantic. Of the Campbell's attack on the sixth submarine, the eyewitness account said:
"The searchlight bridge opens up now, and the wallowing hulk of the U-boat is clearly outlined in the glare. It shudders and rocks as the three-inch shells pour into it at the water line. Everybody on the cutter is yelling like a madman....
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