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Since June planes and submarines had sunk upward of 140,000 tons of Axis shipping in the Mediterranean. According to the New York Herald Tribune's Russell Hill, not a single convoy from Italy, via Greece, makes the crossing without being spotted, attacked and attacked again. Montgomery, on the other hand, was getting reinforcements in a thickening stream: U.S. tanks, mobile artillery, planes. Ships unloaded supplies at Suez at the rate of 10,000 tons...
While the Navy's convoy service seems to be winning the Battle of the Atlantic, it is fast losing the battle waged in the dancehalls and gay places of the Cambridge sector. For the latest reports from the convoy service conducted for lonely officers and college women indicates that insurmountable obstacles have arisen in the path of the powerful Navy offensive in this direction...
Only once again, just before the convoy reached Russia, did the enemy attack. Twenty-four dive-bombers tried to finish it. No ships were damaged. Two enemy planes were downed...
...first time Hurricane fighters, adapted for use from carriers which seldom can be spared for convoy duty, were used successfully to protect a convoy from land-based aircraft...
...Diana as Personality Deb of the Year, swore she could have outstripped blazing Brenda as Glamor Girl if she had half tried. Diana palled around with Brenda a little, was reported engaged to Anthony Duke, Francis Kellogg, Harry Ellerbee (whom she called Poopsie), Sir William Wrixon-Becher, and a convoy of others, including Actor Bramwell Fletcher. Last summer, yes-she married...