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Snow was falling on the sea. Each ship in the convoy moved through the night in a white-curtained cell of its own: the transports from New York, laden with munitions for Russia; the high-sided, thick-bowed Russian destroyers, adapted from Italian designs for ice-breaking and patrol in rough northern waters; Britain's new (1939) 8,000-ton cruiser Trinidad, the old and war-tried destroyer Eclipse, several other warships under the Union Jack. This convoy, for the first time in World War II, had brought together British and Soviet naval units for a common...
...battle had begun somewhere off upper Norway, beyond where the North Atlantic meets the Arctic Circle. As the convoy sailed around North Cape and along the coasts of the remote, mineral-rich territory called Lapland, dive-bombers and submarines kept up the attack. Berlin, reporting the last one near the entrance to Murmansk harbor, claimed a total bag of eight ships, including a 10,000-tonner loaded with tanks and ammunition. The British said that the entire convoy entered Murmansk, admitted some damage and deaths, claimed the probable destruction of three U-boats with depth charges...
...north whipped nine Jap bombers at high altitude. Anti-aircraft slammed against the chattering of machine guns, and the convoy zigzagged in a crazy pattern. The Jap took dead aim and let go. His first salvo missed. The second took the Langley fairly. Dive-bombers bored in, slammed the old tender again & again...
Over Balikpapan on the east Borneo coast the smoke hung thick; flames from the oil wells fired by the Dutch stabbed red into the murk. The Japanese were closing in. Off the port in the Strait of Macassar a great Japanese convoy stood, ready to move south toward Java. Before the next dawn. Feb. 24, it had been slashed into gaping disorder in one of the wildest naval raids in modern naval history...
...upon to climb behind awheel and high-tail over the road to deliver a load to a waiting ship, or a defense plant slowed down for a lack of parts. (A few hours after Pearl Harbor, a seven-truck caravan rumbled out of Massachusetts with freight for a Pacific convoy, despite a Midwest blizzard made the transcontinental run in eight days.) Trucks move heavy tonnage of foodstuffs and supplies to Army camps; make hour-by-hour deliveries of parts from subcontractors to prime producers. Tractors (engine and cab units) now work around the clock seven days a week, shuttling trailers...