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...chose submarine service because I was lazy. Submariners got more pay, and had more time in port. That appealed to me. I was navigating officer on H.M.S. Ursula [real name, use permitted by the British Admiralty], out five days on a patrol in the Helgoland Bight when war began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Good Time in the Depths | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...Preparation. Nazi dive-bombers, which claimed a heavy toll of shipping in the bight of Bougie, harried the advance of British and U.S. troops. U.S. motorized units raced along the coast and joined the amphibious forces of the British First Army when it landed on the beach at Bone, 60 miles from the border. In three columns the united armies marched over the border at dawn Nov. 14 and began to make their way over the sizable mountains that divide Tunis from Algeria. Ahead of them, Allied paratroops, which left Britain only four days before, floated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Carthage Again | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Jamaica, 80 miles south of Cuba and 500 miles north of the Panama Canal, is the only new U. S. base squarely within the Caribbean. For big, rugged Jamaica, the U. S. Navy has big plans : an anchorage at Portland Bight, in Galleon Harbor 33 square miles of land base; 100 acres near Williamsfield for a recreation centre and hospital mess ; a mile-square area south of May Pen for an emergency and auxiliary landing field. Near by at Port Royal the British naval dockyard, long neglected, will be improved by the U. S., providing the U. S. Navy with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Bases Chosen | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...that off as a dead loss, the project was still worthwhile, provided Hermann Goring's air force was as all-powerful as rated. But Norway's coast is a nearer target for the R. A. F. than Germany's air bases at Sylt and in Helgoland Bight. Moreover, destruction of the German Fleet would leave the Allied navies more free to fight elsewhere to Germany's disadvantage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Why Hitler Did It | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...believed on the swarm of 150-tonners which the Nazis are reported mass-producing, the Allies have still the larger submarine fleet-but less opportunity to use it to advantage. The sending of groups of submarines, not merely isolated raiders, on the "particularly hazardous service" of raiding Helgoland Bight, revealed the Admiralty's anxiety to press the sea war home to Germany before spring comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: In the Bight | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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