Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bengal rowing qualities have fallen mightily since last year, when the Tigers presented the sole threat to Harvard's Eastern supremacy. In two races so far this year they have bowed to little Rutgers and a high-stroking Navy eight. 165-pound starboard stroke Dune Pitney is again pacing the Princetonians, but he doesn't seem to have the necessary power behind him to raise the Orange and Black much above the class of Tech and Syracuse, both of which failed to come within three lengths of the flying Crimson last Saturday...
Ominous quiet fell over one of the Allies' most ominous war zones, the Bay of Bengal. Where was the great Japanese naval force - three battleships, five carriers, supporting cruisers and destroyers - which raised havoc in the Bay last fortnight? If the warships and bombers were still in the Bay, they kept to their holes in the Andaman Islands. They made no move across the Bay toward India, nor toward Ceylon at India's southern door...
...Pearl Harbor, but continuously fanning out toward Japan's home waters, is always a brake on the Japanese Navy. If the U.S. Fleet tightened the brake a little, with a feint toward Jap waters, the Japanese may have had to pull their warships from the Bay of Bengal in a hurry...
...balance is shifting. Brigadier General Royce and his U.S. bombing raiders were attacked by very few Jap planes over the Philippines. Over New Guinea and Australia, the United Nations have aerial superiority for the present, and there are other signs that the Burma front and the Bay of Bengal (see p. 20) are about all that Japan's air services can handle at one time. Japan's air superiority in the Bay of Bengal is the smallest she has yet had in any important area...
British and U.S. planes roamed the Bay. Some of them, probably R.A.F. bombers from Ceylon, tracked down a Jap carrier and attacked. They missed; they also "suffered some losses." The Royal Navy still had "substantial forces" in the Bay of Bengal; enemy accounts mentioned at least several more cruisers, another aircraft carrier, two battleships (including the old, U.S.-repaired Malaya). The British figured that the Japs had three of their newest 50,000-ton battleships, five aircraft carriers, a strong complement of cruisers and destroyers. Gloomiest index of the results of the first battles for the Bay was a British...