Word: merchantmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the Falange, political core of Spain's Fascism, announced a program of general "relaxation" in domestic affairs, even dissolved the rambunctious Falangist Militia. The last elements of the Blue Division returned from Russia to be disbanded. A No.1 subject of current negotiations is the question of Italian merchantmen and warships held in Spanish ports...
...Kwajalein, world's largest atoll, an 80-mile string of islets, is the hub of the Marshall fortifications. It has a major airfield (on Roi Island), a seaplane anchorage, submarine facilities. In its tremendous lagoon, raiding U.S. planes (TIME, Dec. 20), have caught cruisers, carriers, seagoing merchantmen and many varieties of inter-island craft...
Atolls of Empire. Until World War II, history brushed by the Marshalls. Portuguese and Spanish sea dogs noted them in the 16th Century, quickly forgot them. In 1788 two British merchantmen, the Charlotte under Captain Thomas Gilbert and the Scarborough under Captain John Marshall, skirted and named for each other the Gilbert and Marshall atolls...
...Washington last week, a belated and patently embarrassed tally of the disaster at Bari was finally made (see p. 19). Of the 30-odd ships in the harbor, at least 17 had been sunk-arnonj them five U.S. merchantmen. Some of the supplies had already been landed, but for two or three days the British Eighth Army battling in the north felt the pinch. Casualties totaled 1,000-"including 37 American Naval personnel...
They man the pleasure cruisers which have been turned over to the Coast Guard Auxiliary, fill out depleted crews of regular Coast Guard cutters, squeegee paint, scrub decks, inspect buoys, board incoming merchantmen and seal their radios, run signal lights, patrol docks and beaches. In their idle time between their twelve-hour-a-week duty and their regular civilian jobs, the hottest zealots study seamanship, gunnery and navigation...