Word: merchantmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knox's estimates: when the war began, Japan had 6,368,891 tons of merchantmen. Since then she has added approximately a million tons of ships seized, ships salvaged and ships new-built (mostly wooden ones).* Of that total tonnage of about 7,500,000, the Allies have sunk 2,500,000 tons...
...four months ago, Allied authorities expected to be losing ship after ship to the greatest of U-boat campaigns, the actual losses were astoundingly small. In fact, the ocean lanes to Britain and North Africa last week were more dangerous for Germany's U-boats than for Allied merchantmen...
Last week the Navy released these new details of the worst convoy disaster in U.S. history. On that night, last February, more than 850 U.S. soldiers and sailors died in the North Atlantic when two merchantmen went down. Said Ship's Cook George Dunningham: "There were a lot of men yelling and blowing whistles. Many of them were in the water, and each had his red rescue light lit. It looked like a weird, strange dream...
Last week the U-boats' return to the American seaboard was announced. Atlantic skippers told of twelve-hour running fights. Now Doenitz sent his raiders hunting in multiple packs. His U-boats attacked in waves-first to disrupt escorts, then to bore in among the helpless merchantmen for the kill. To supplement the work of the U-boats was a still-powerful German surface fleet, reportedly moved from Norway fjords, possibly operating again against Atlantic convoys...
...attacks on Oro Bay and Guadalcanal the Japs lost 31 planes. Liberators and Flying Fortresses of MacArthur's command, in three assaults on Kavieng, sank two Jap cruisers and a destroyer, damaged other warships and merchantmen...