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...sensations finally forced the U.S. to acknowledge that it was engaged in a shooting war, the facts that came out last week were even more convincing. They showed that the U.S. Navy's North Atlantic Patrol, which has expected trouble ever since the occupation of Iceland, has been actively looking for trouble since Franklin Roosevelt's "shoot on sight" speech of Sept...
...Betty" Stark's statement revised one historical point: the Greer, which the U.S. public had believed attacked by a U-boat without provocation, was in fact attacked while she was dogging a submarine. The destroyer was heading for Iceland with mail, passengers and freight, he wrote, when a British patrol plane reported a sub ten miles dead ahead...
...Kearny's brush came from her gamecock (5 ft. 2% in.) skipper, 42-year-old Lieut. Commander Anthony Leo Danis. It was brief; onetime Airshipman Danis wanted no German raider to spot him through radio messages. Net of his message: the Kearny, torpedoed 350 miles southwest of Iceland, was proceeding to port under her own power...
WASHINGTON--Administration demands that Congress act quickly to combat unrestricted German warfare in the Atlantic were strongly implemented tonight by the torpedoing and sinking of two more American-owned freighters and disclosure that the U. S. Destroyer Kearny was on convoy duty last Friday when it was attacked off Iceland...
...field army in Iceland is headed by cob-nosed, soft-spoken Major General Charles H. Bonesteel, formerly in command of the Fifth Division. His force, complete from infantry to ordnance units, is equipped with everything from Garand semi-automatic rifles to fighter planes, telephone poles to cement mixers. Well-secured against Iceland weather, each of his men has been issued fur caps, wool-lined mackinaws, heavy galoshes, gloves, five pairs of shoes, heavy underclothes and socks in addition to regular work clothes and uniforms. Each soldier also has a pair of skis and snowshoes...