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...Paid. Dutch and U.S. cruisers and destroyers sighted a great Japanese convoy of 40 transports, 20 warships. The transports stayed well away from the naval combatants-a precautionary measure which they seemed to follow throughout the Java invasion. At twelve-mile range the Allied cruisers loosed their main batteries on the Japanese. Destroyers closed with shell and torpedo fire. A Japanese heavy cruiser sank. Another Jap cruiser-the Mogami, whose main batteries had apparently been converted from 6.1-to 8-in. guns-retired in flames. Hits crippled a third 8-in. gun cruiser. Three Jap destroyers blazed up, appeared...
...sunk. Storm and high seas wrecked a U.S. destroyer and supply ship off Newfoundland (see p. 24). Tankers in U.S. coastal waters took a beating (see col. 2). The Germans claimed that seven ships totaling 52,000 tons had been destroyed in a running attack on one convoy -a claim brutally confirmed when in survivors landed in Canada. They estimated that six to nine ships had been lost, said their listening devices indicated a pack of at least five U-boats...
First aid, elementary engine repair, and convoy driving are the principal subjects that the drivers have pursued. Special emphasis has been put on the convoy training, in an effort to increase the speed and efficiency with which the graduates can form and maintain a column in long-distance driving...
...enemy air units are appearing over our lines, bombing our troops almost constantly. . . . Hostile artillery fire on our forts from positions on the Cavite shore continues. New enemy batteries in Bataan have increased the density of artillery fire on our positions. A fairly large convoy of Japanese troopships has arrived in Subic Bay and enemy reinforcements are landing at Olongapo...
...refineries at Aruba and Curagao. This in itself was an Axis victory, for Venezuelan oil furnishes from one-half to two-thirds of all the aviation gasoline that the United Nations use. The continuing threat of Axis submarines could slow this traffic almost to a standstill, until an effective convoy system was put into effect...