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...other warships were reported sunk. So hot was the going that the two convoys united, then had some 18 escorts for 70 cargo ships. A German communiqué indicated that the subs had deliberately concentrated on escort ships rather than merchantmen...
Area of Doubt. German communiqués said, with fierce insistence, that the situation in the Balkans was well in German hands. They said that the estimated 34 Italian divisions in the Balkans were being peaceably disarmed and replaced by German divisions. They said that the Italians, bidden by British Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson to "turn out the Germans," were making trouble only in "minor instances...
With plenty to occupy them elsewhere, the Germans took time last week to raid Spitsbergen the frozen, far-north island on the edge of the Arctic Ocean. Heavy naval forces shelled a garrison of Norwegians. Said a Berlin communiqué: German grenadiers, in the face of "violent resistance," landed, destroyed installations and coal dumps, seized prisoners, retired...
...Navy's report on its stab into enemy waters 1,250 miles from Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 13) sounded like an anticlimax. According to the communiqué finally issued last week by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet: 80% of little Marcus Island's military installations, seven twin-motored Jap bombers, hangars, fuel and ammunition dumps, shops and living quarters were destroyed; an enemy trawler was sunk. After pounding the 740-acre island for nine hours from the air, losing two fighters and one torpedo plane, the U.S. task force, commanded by air-minded...
Hess : "The Luftwaffe communiqués are absolutely accurate. We shot down 2,000 planes and lost only...