Word: merchantmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply. Last week a London naval analyst listed Britain's most important lines (the Indian Ocean, her route to Russia via Murmansk, her north Atlantic route from the U.S.), and said: "If it is not possible to safeguard all three without incurring disastrous losses both in warships and merchantmen, surely it is necessary to decide what it would be literally fatal to lose, and to concentrate on that...
...eastern India, between Calcutta and Madras, Jap warships and planes closed on a British merchant fleet. Some 500 survivors said nothing about air defense from nearby India, nothing of defense by any accompanying British warships. Tokyo later claimed that in this and other attacks, the Japanese sank 2 merchantmen, damaged 23 more. New Delhi admitted some merchant losses...
Only then did Commander Talbot order gunfire. His 4-inchers blazed. The Japanese began to fire from armed merchantmen and destroyers. But it was much too late. Only four U.S. sailors were wounded when Desdiv 59, blacked out and wondering just how much damage it had done, bore south through the Strait again. When daylight came, the division looked forward to its leading ship, saw that Talbot had run up the signal that Navy men prize most...
British planes are reinforcing American patrols guarding the United States coastline, it was revealed Monday, co-incident with disclosure of the loss of two more Allied merchantmen, one by U-boat action...
First Brazil ordered all her merchantmen home or into the nearest friendly port. Then President Getulio Dornellas Vargas issued two new decrees. Though his Constitution gives him the right, in case of aggression, to declare war without consulting Brazil's decorative legislative bodies, he made assurance doubly sure by reaffirming this power. The other decree amended the Constitution to permit him to seize up to 30% of Axis assets, estimated at between four and six million dollars, exclusive of blocked credits in the Banco do Brasil...