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...plane carrying America's No. 1 Russophile on Mission II to Moscow circled down at the Soviet capital with an escort of five fighters. On his head energetic, individualistic ex-Ambassador Joe Davies wore the first Panama hat seen in Moscow in many a day. Under his arm he tightly pressed the brief case holding a private letter from Franklin Roosevelt to Joseph Stalin...
After that one the Japs hit back, sent bombers and an escort of Zeros to shoot up the American base. Tommy Lanphier and four other Lightning pilots attacked eleven Jap fighters, pulled away and began to climb. At 35,000 feet, where the turbo-supercharged Lockheeds were still flying handily, they turned on the gasping Zeros. In a few seconds seven were plunging down in flames. The other four started downhill...
Forester's ship is the 5,000-ton light cruiser Artemis. Her job: with the help of four other light cruisers and a dozen destroyers, to escort a convoy to Malta. In the Artemis' crow's nest Ordinary Seaman Quimsby, his padded perch whirling "in prodigious circles against the sky," sees a faint wreath of smoke on the Mediterranean skyline and in a few minutes, "climbing over . . . the curve of the world," come six enemy cruisers, vanguard of an Italian force of battleships and destroyers...
Some glowing reports are coming back from the men who went out to Wellesley College last Sunday and it should be pretty hard from now on to get on the go list. The trip included a dinner, a beautiful chick for an escort, 400 acres of beautiful, wooded, rolling country, a beautiful chick, a swim in the newest of pools that is equipped with an underwater observation post so that the femmes may be observed, dancing, a beautiful chick, sandwiches and more chicks . . . Nice place...
...keep Britain alive and functioning as the Allies' European base, 700 to 800 ships must cross the Atlantic each month. Each new Allied war theater means more convoy routes, more targets for Admiral Doenitz' fleet, more dispersal of scant Allied escort ships...