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Last week over bleak Iceland his final landing came. Letting down through a dense fog an Army plane crashed and burned. In the wreckage died General Frank M. Andrews, Bishop Leonard, Army Chaplains Robert...
...first real attempt to tell the score in the fog-shrouded Battle of the Atlantic, the committee had revealed this shocking fact: 1,000,000 deadweight tons of shipping were sent to the bottom monthly in '42, the losses outweighing new U.S. and British construction. Knox's tart retort that the committee's figures were compiled from "unauthorized and uninformed sources" was reassuring to the nation...
Three days later the Secretary announced sinkings in April were much lower than in March. But he hastily warned that "too much significance" should not be attached to this. Thus the fog was kept draped over the Atlantic and the anxious citizens...
Months of existence in a literal hell of mud, ice and fog have taught U.S. fighting men much about the Aleutians. Many of their lessons have been bitter. But they had the satisfaction last week of knowing that the Japs they are fighting are faring even worse. Jap-held Kiska had been plastered by more than a million high explosive and incendiary bombs during April. Jap raids on American positions were infrequent, of little consequence...
Light U.S. forces engaged the convoy, which skittishly turned and fled. It was a safe bet that during the next heavy fog the Japs would be back...