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John Osborne, who recently flew to Britain, spent five months there, then came back with a convoy to get the true feel of the Battle of the Atlantic...
Strategy of Diversion. The concentration of U-boats in American waters revealed the Axis strategy: so to disrupt shipping that naval strength would be diverted from its more vital convoy duties...
Warmer weather eases the strain of navigating the mist-curtained Arctic sea lanes to Murmansk. But such meteorological relief works alike for friend & foe. Last week Luftwaffe planes spotted a huge Allied convoy specking the slate-grey sea between Iceland and Norway's North Cape. They engaged the convoy in a running, four-day battle, claimed to have inflicted grave losses: 14 ships sunk, 16 damaged. No confirmation came from any Allied source...
Whether this report is true or not, Trondheim was by last week the chief Allied headache on the Arctic supply route to Russia, where, lately, headaches have grown more splitting. Lengthening daylight gives Nazi aircraft more time for reconnaissance. The southward drift of polar ice pinches the convoy channel dangerously narrow. Last week Germany claimed that the Luftwaffe had sunk a U.S. cruiser of the 9,100-ton Pensacola class and a U.S. destroyer, somewhere between Norway's North Cape and Spitsbergen, had scored hits on two more U.S. destroyers. Another Nazi news-bomb announced the sinking...
Churchill said fortnight ago that every convoy carrying U.S.-British supplies to Russia had got through. It may be that German Grand Admiral Erich Raeder will take over where U-boats and the Luftwaffe have not brilliantly succeeded, will order the Tirpitz and other warships out from Trondheim to pulverize convoys. If he does, say the British, the fight will be terrific...