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General Marshall and Admiral King had expected a foray against Dutch Harbor. They had not miscalculated the risks...
More significant than the actual losses in this particular foray was a later London announcement: the British had increased the naval strength assigned to the northern patrol between Iceland and Murmansk. For this there was a reason. After months when more & more British and U.S. war goods had found their way, with little interference, past Norway to Murmansk and Archangel, the Germans were stirring in their Norwegian lairs. The United Nations from now on would have to fight for one of the vital sea lanes of World...
...under the sheltering guns of Trondheim Fjord. With her were the 10,000-ton pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, the 10,000-ton heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Were the Nazis about to move against Britain's supply lines to Russia's Arctic ports? Or were they plotting a foray against U.S.-held Iceland...
...Germans from other fronts, if not yet as the Allied road back. A sweep across northern Norway would give the Allies a common U.S.-British-Soviet front, might knock Finland out of the war. Joseph Stalin is anxious to get his allies into some nearby field, even if their foray fails. The mere threat of action against Norway had already immobilized some 200,000 German soldiers who might have been killing Russians...
This during foray, coming upon the House on Wednesday, caused Roy L. Westcott, Director of the University Dining Hall, to announce that here after all dining halls will keep their silverware under look and key. Tightlipped, spoonless authorities would not reveal the nature of the punishment which will be meted out to the culprit, if apprehended...