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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...
Britain, at Scapa Flow, and the U.S. and Britain, in Iceland, have naval bases on the fringes of the battle area. In Norway on the Atlantic, at Kiel and Helgoland on the North Sea approaches, the Nazis have a great advantage: an inner line of both naval and air bases to protect German supply routes and to launch attacks on the outer Allied routes. The Germans also have enough naval power at hand to give the Allies serious contest: the mighty Tirpitz, which apparently escaped unharmed from a recent torpedo-plane attack; the smaller Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, several cruisers...
...most Americans at home, this was the first direct word from their soldiers in the field. The men in Bataan, Australia, the Middle East, Iceland, Ireland also had their innings. For them, as well as the home front the Army put Secretary of War Stimson, Lieut. General Lesley McNair, commander of the Army Ground Force, and the commanders of the four U.S. home armies on the air. Their soldierly words, though guarded, managed to convey a reassuring outline of the growing U.S. Army...
Seventeen times on Sunday, over 17 different wave lengths, Command Performance is short-waved by eleven U.S. radio stations to the armed forces on Bataan Peninsula, to frosty Iceland, Alaska, Ireland, the scorchy Caribbean, to the boys in the Antipodes, the Middle East, wherever they are. It is global entertainment, designed for global...
...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...