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54 Popular Culture Review — In May 1941 a U-boat sunk the U.S. merchant ship Robin Moore, and other ships were attacked as the summer wore on (Shirer, 882). —On July 19,1941, the U.S. Navy was ordered to escort ship ping of any nationality to and from Iceland. (Roskill, 612) On the German side, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, commander in chief o f the German navy, had issued orders that U-boats were not to attack American ships unless attacked first (Shirer, 883). But when