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Lieut, (j.g.) Franklin Jr., 28, served aboard a destroyer with the North Atlantic Patrol on convoy duty, was in London on Navy business at last official reports in June...
Some 1,000 miles from Gibraltar, near the Tyrrhenian Sea, Axis ships bustled out-a force of cruisers which suddenly turned tail, trying to draw off some of the convoy's protective strength. The British dispatched a submarine in pursuit, held their course steadily for the funnel...
Last week, defiant of military logic, the Royal Navy made another try. Not since last June, when Axis raiders unmercifully pounded a fleet of slow-moving Allied cargo vessels in the western Mediterranean, have the United Nations tried to push another convoy through that hazardous sea. The Axis, entrenched along the shores where the sea funnels into the 100-mile-wide straits south of Sicily, boasted that it could not be done...
...might cover initial landings, the seizure of a few airdromes, the quick delivery of enough land-based fighters to hold the air over northern Norway while troops tried to secure a real hold. If successful, the Allies could then break Germany's air grip on the convoy route to Murmansk and Archangel, perhaps compel a major German diversion from Russia's northern fronts. If they failed-and the odds against final success would be great -they might still upset the Nazis enough to increase the chances of success along the invasion coast nearer Britain...
Fifty-six Military Science 3 men visited Camp Devens Saturday, after arriving in a ten-car convoy executing a military problem. First touring the Recruit Reception Center, quartermaster warehouses, firing range, and a mechanized cavalry unit, they later moved into tents for a night camp...