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...weeks the Spanish peepers by Gibraltar had reported sea traffic pouring through the Pillars of Hercules in volume great enough to carry Mark Clark's Army and then some. One day Berlin reported 23 transports and tankers escorted by carriers, battleships and smaller ships going eastward, two days later reported 150 landing barges, escorted by destroyers and a carrier...
...great Soo Locks at the eastern tip of Superior and the narrow Straits of Mackinac that connect Lake Michigan with Lake Huron are the twin bottlenecks through which 85% of the nation's vast iron ore production flows to U.S. blast furnaces. The ore moves eastward to the Soo from Minnesota's Mesabi Range, then southwest to Gary, southeast to Cleveland, Youngstown and Pittsburgh...
Further, the eastward oil flow will be swelled in two ways...
Kharkov was of supreme importance. Without it, the German salient reaching eastward into the Donets basin would be vulnerable to flank attack from the north, the German north-south lines would be seriously interrupted. With it, the Germans would be in the best position for an advance (if advance the Germans can) into the soft area between Stalingrad and Moscow. Early this week the Russians admitted that they had lost Kharkov...
...passenger-cargo ships, cram-full of servicemen, war stuffs and civilians on war missions, started eastward across the Atlantic in early February. Somewhere at sea, U-boats, probably using wolf-pack tactics, picked them up, kept snapping at their keels. By night, a torpedo sank one of the ships; four days later, the other was sunk. Each ship went down in less than 30 minutes, Some lives were saved. This week Washington, announcing the sinkings, also announced the death toll: more than...