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...naval supplies and $7,611,000 for "services." But $26,000,000 can buy a lot of repairs and provide quickly many times as many ships for the Battle of the Atlantic as the same amount of money spent on new construction. For a seriously damaged battleship, cruiser, aircraft carrier or merchant ship is, until it has been repaired, no better than a ship sunk. And every ship restored to service before overburdened British shipyards could do so adds to Britain's strength for the interim as much as the outright gift of such a ship from...
...bloodshed. The Australians took it, lost it when Vichy's General Henri Fernand Dentz (who last year surrendered Paris) furiously counterattacked, took it again. While British naval units poured fire into Sidon, they were attacked by Axis bombers, and Nazis claimed a direct hit on a heavy cruiser. Vichy boasted it had dive-bombed two British destroyers and crippled them. Australian fighters shot down three German Junkers 88s with Italian markings, sent presumably from Dodecanesan Rhodes. After Sidon, the Australian troops pressed on up the coast to the outskirts of Beirut, at which the Royal Navy and the R.A.F...
...naval loss was staggering. The Admiralty admitted that altogether four cruisers and six destroyers had been sunk by enemy aviation. This was more than the Italians lost at the much-hailed Battle of Matapan (three cruisers, three destroyers). One of the lost cruisers was an anti-aircraft ship, one of the "bristling porcupines" which have so far treated hostile airplanes roughly and come off relatively well. Ironically 'this one was sunk not by bombs but by an infernal machine. The anti-aircraft cruiser and two of the other ships were sunk by steered torpedoes (TIME, Nov. 11, weird...
Unofficial reports first had it that an Alaska cruiser, instead of an older type like the Santa Fe, was to go down in the South Dakota's vacated space. Secretary Knox said last week that the Navy was awaiting full details of the Hood and Bismarck sinkings, implied that some changes in U.S. design may result...
Novelist Margaret Mitchell, who put Atlanta back on the literary map, will christen the cruiser Atlanta, ∙∙Now that President Roosevelt has gone back to the old Thanksgiving, Republican Governor Sumner Sewall has proclaimed the new Thanksgiving for the first time in Maine. ∙∙ An unidentified axman vainly tried to decapitate Sabrina, the bronze nymph for whom 80 generations of Amherst classes have fought one another. ∙∙ Prophet Wilbur Glen Voliva of Zion, Ill. predicted a bad end for the dictators by plunging into a lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). ∙∙ Dr. Samuel Harden Church...