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...Patrol Craft Escort: 180-foot convoy guardian, tonnage secret, cost about $1 million. PCEs bear such names as Hell Harvest, Hell for Hirohito...
...announcer's voice, vibrant with pride and triumph: "The Führer's Headquarters. The German High Command announces: A sub marine commanded by Senior Lieutenant von Billow has sunk in the middle of the North Atlantic the American aircraft carrier Ranger, employed to guard Atlantic convoy routes. The Führer has awarded the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross [of the Iron Cross] to Lieutenant von Bülow, the 234th member of the German armed forces to receive the decoration." That announcement was made April 25, 1943. There must have been some mistake...
Under such handicaps the White Sea League played ball. In Manhattan last week the story of U.S. sports 100 miles below the Arctic Circle was told by a member of the so-called "Forgotten Convoy"-four merchant ships marooned near Archangel from May to November last year...
...White Sea League.* Three-day games of five-card stud, with table stakes, no limit, became routine. The poker ended abruptly when one ship won $1,992, leaving $8 as total capital among the other three. Craps redistributed the wealth, but not for long. A few days before the convoy finally sailed, the game became the property of two shipmates. One, a Yale alumnus, owned the dice. The other, a Sing Sing alumnus, had all the money...
...Fifty escort carriers, flattops built on cargo-ship hulls, designed for convoy work but usable in island attacks...