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...Map & Jap. German naval strategy had partly brought about this change, but only partly. Her submarines had forced the Allied fleets to spread themselves thin, searching for the answer to a vast global problem of logistics that had consistently kept the superior surface force on the defense. Germany had partly brought the change about by starting to build her surface fleet during the starvation days of the Weimar Republic, and keeping up the program even when the pinch of war put the emphasis on U-boats...
...Nazi dispositions against the European supply lines of the United Nations were now complete. From the North Cape to the Cape of Good Hope, those supply lines were threatened from German bases all along the Atlantic profile (see map...
When it came, one of the sailors had already drifted away. The others righted the boat and bailed it out, found that they had eleven cans of condensed milk, some hardtack and chocolate, a compass and a small dictionary with a map of the Western Hemisphere. In good spirits, they headed west, helped along by an improvised sail made out of a lifeboat cover. On the fourth or fifth day, they sighted a tanker, but the quartermaster, who was senior man in the boat, was afraid to release a flare for fear of attracting a sub. He blinked...
...technique of the Russians and the strongpoint system of the Germans, that kept the front from knitting itself into the stabilized warfare of 1915-18 in France. From Leningrad, newly freed from the German, to Taganrog, there were at least ten separate pockets of German resistance, stoutly held (see map). The Russians surged between and around them, in great pincers. But the pincers were hard to close. The Germans held...
...proposes to defend Australia for two reasons: 1) to keep open at least the southern half of the Indian Ocean and its approaches from the South Atlantic (see map); 2) to base a counteroffensive against the Indies, Malaya and Japan itself. The first reason is compelling. But the real value of southern Australia's distant ports and cities for counterassault is open to argument...