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Thus shipyard labor was warned to quit shirking for the duration. Six men were ejected from Moore Drydock Co., others were fired from Western Pipe & Steel Co. and Bethlehem Steel Corp. yards. Said Charles P. Adams, personnel director at Moore, "These were extreme cases...
...come of the award to Beattie of the Victoria Cross, highest British military medal, for gallantry against the Nazis. Beattie's feat: skippering the destroyer Campbeltown into St.-Nazaire during the war's biggest Commando raid (TIME, April 6), ramming his ship's nose against drydock gates to plug the important German-held repair yards. During hand-to-hand fighting before the British withdrew, Beattie and a number of other Commando-men were captured, have languished since in a prison camp. One of them, Lieut. Colonel Augustus Charles Newman, in a regular installment of his Barbed Wire...
...first mercy ship to carry food, medical supplies, cigarets and sweets to U.S. fighting men in Japanese prison camps is about to sail from San Francisco harbor, the neat Swedish freighter Kanangoora, fresh out of drydock with huge red crosses on her whitened sides. Into her hold will go $1,000,000 in supplies- and the love and prayers of thousands of wives, parents, sisters and sweethearts...
...hills of Panama. A few miles farther on is Asen fjord, where the really big ships hide: the mighty Tirpitz, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, and the damaged heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. According to Stockholm reports, the Germans are preparing a full-fledged naval base there, building a drydock big enough to take in 40,000-ton battleships...
...base at the northern end of the island, is the key to the western half of the Indian Ocean. Diego-Suarez snuggles in a broad, lighthouse-studded bay, and it affords the navy of the nation which controls it a fully equipped submarine station, a 26,000-ton capacity drydock (nearest equivalent: Southampton, England), radio stations, a largely equable climate, a military hospital, a good water supply, a big power plant and meteorological station...