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...official British account of two simultaneous convoy actions in May told how aircraft escort carriers, land-based airplanes, and surface vessels are cooperating to beat the U-boats...
...British, Canadian and American navies at last have enough escort vessels to do two things: provide defensive cover for the convoys and hunt down any submarines which may approach...
...anti-submarine devices have increased the efficiency of planes and escort vessels. Though secret, enough has been published of them to indicate that they concern both the detection of submarines and the automatic control of antisubmarine fire...
...only by the U.S., Russia and Great Britain. Proud of that position and its record of 70% of its production shipped to allies, Munitions Minister C. D. Howe reported last week that Canada now has a weekly production of: 80 airplanes, 4,000 motor vehicles, 450 fighting vehicles, six escort, cargo or patrol vessels, 940 heavy guns, 13,000 small weapons, 525,000 rounds of heavy ammunition, 25,000,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition, 10,000 tons of chemicals and explosives, $4,000,000 worth of instrument and communications equipment...
...service, only three have been killed so far (two others are listed as missing) in World War II. Two were killed at Pearl Harbor: Thomas Leroy Kirkpatrick (Presbyterian) and Moysius Herman Schmitt (Catholic). Within the past month the name of each has been given to a newly launched destroyer escort...