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...second amphibious operation was launched from Terneuzen to the west side of the Savojaards Inlet. The force landed there drove south, and joined up with still other units advancing from the south along the west side of the inlet. Slowly and inexorably the Nazi pocket was being cut into tiny patches...
...hundreds of miles, the eastern U.S. looked like the scene of a giant's Halloween. The storm warnings had served their purpose-the hurricane did but one-fifth the damage, took less than one-tenth of the lives claimed by the 1938 storm. But along every bay and inlet boats of all descriptions lay smashed, high & dry in streets, backyards and fields. Tens of thousands of trees were down; many a householder had to chop his way out. Some 300,000 telephones were out of service; and for many miles the power lines festooned the streets. For days many...
...Manitoba), Churchill (on Hudson Bay), Southampton Island, Fort Chimo (near Ungava Bay) and Baffin Island's Frobisher Bay. They lie far north of what is likely to be the real northeast gateway to Europe: the great base at Goose Bay on Labrador's Hamilton Inlet. To bring Goose within easier reach of the continental U.S., the U.S. Army built a base at Mingan, Quebec, which increased the pay load, reduced the fuel load of planes flying through this gateway to Europe. Canada acquired this airfield too by the new deal...
...Solomons base, the U.S. Navy issued a stern order: commanders of naval vessels, particularly PT boats, must not exceed 25 knots through the inlet. Reason: the wake at higher speeds (as delighted small-boat skippers had discovered) washed the Army privies off their stilts, dropped the establishments and their occupants into the water. Also forbidden: paint-up pictures of privies on small-boat bridges, with scores marked underneath...
...Helena steamed on to her destiny. She pounded enemy airfields, troop areas, shore batteries. Down in her log went names now legendary: Munda, Vila, Kolombangara, Enogai Inlet, Bairoko Harbor. Finally came the Battle of Kula Gulf, a turning point which cost the Jap something between nine and eleven cruisers and destroyers. It cost the U.S. one ship: the Helena...