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Much had happened since that night in the spring. U.S. forces had occupied Iceland. U.S. bombers had begun to shuttle like suburban trains across the Atlantic...
...Teagle, 9,552 gross tons, owned by the Standard Oil Co., flying the British flag, manned by a British crew, bearing north for Iceland with a cargo of bulk...
Square-faced Hermann Jónasson, Premier of Iceland, last week decided he could no longer face the problems brought on by foreign occupation of Iceland. His Cabinet had split wide open...
Last year thousands of British soldiers (some estimates run as high as 80,000) descended on Iceland. This year thousands of U.S. Marines and soldiers followed...
...days later came a few more details. The Kearny had got to Iceland. The U.S. public had assumed that there were no casualties. Now it learned that eleven of the Kearny's crew were "missing," presumably trapped in a ruptured watertight compartment. Barring a miracle, they were dead. Ten more of the Kearny's crew (13 officers, 177 men) were injured, two of them seriously. Navy men were not surprised. They had waited with forboding. They knew that when a torpedo hits a destroyer, somebody usually dies...