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SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA-- The Bismarck Sea ran red with Japanese blood tonight and the wreckage of Japanese ships and planes were strewn from New Britain to the coast of New Guinea as Allied bombers completed wiping out a 22-ship convey in the most decisive beating ever given the Japanese at sea in this theatre of operations...
Submarines and convettes guarded the first legs of the convey's to Iceland, through the Denmark Straits where the Bismarck went down, and out from Iceland toward northern England. There the convey split into two parts, for England and Russia, with most of the escorting vessels accompanying the England-bound section...
Politics is not an exact science.-Otto Von Bismarck...
...opening of better weather for submarines. But possibly neither of these things was so important last week as the launching of a vessel which, when completed, will be the only United Nations battleship afloat able, without giving odds, to take on the powerful Nazi Tirpitz, sister of the sunken Bismarck...
...hero who had saved a valuable convoy, declared it would take several months to repair the Tirpitz. That was patently guesswork, because the Tirpitz, when last seen, was proceeding under her own steam. When hit, such warships can often close bulkheads and keep going. Her sister ship Bismarck sustained enormously greater damage before going down...