Word: merchantmen
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...Shipments to Russia included 13,500 tons of aluminum, 11,700 tons of lead, 1,500 tons of nickel, 120,000 tons of flour, 10,000 tons of wheat. Many Russian merchantmen were serviced and repaired in Canadian ports...
...Turkey did the Allies a great service in the early war years by staying neutral. A German invasion of Turkey, when Britain was barely able to hold Egypt and Suez, might have been disastrous. Last week, when Anthony Eden (who reportedly dislikes Menemencioglu) complained that German warships, disguised as merchantmen, had been allowed to cruise through Turkey's Dardanelles, Ankara had to give in. Numan Menemencioglu took the fall, handed over his portfolio to Premier Sükrü Saracoglu. But nobody thought brilliant Mr. Menemencioglu was out for a very long count...
...Arctic dawn was grey and dismal and the carriers tossed in a heavy sea, but the Barracuda dive bombers and the fighters went up. Off Bodö in northern Norway, through wind-tossed snow and rain, they sighted a German convoy - four merchantmen and five escorts. The British attacked. They hit all nine ships, set fires on several, sent one to the beach and one, they believed, to the bottom...
Nine thousand miles away, in the western Pacific, the Navy was busy demonstrating that such carriers, plus smaller cruisers and merchantmen converted into carriers, could operate effectively against Japanese land-based aviation ... a thesis that was once fiercely debated (TIME, June...
...From Washington the Navy announced that two submarines had returned to report sinking 13 more Jap merchantmen. ^ But the most impressive attacks were made in the Central Pacific, where frosty-eyed, newly promoted Admiral Raymond Spruance and his Central Pacific Fleet bored swiftly westward. Ten weeks elapsed between the first Central Pacific attack (Tarawa) and the second (Kwajalein). But only ten days after Kwajalein, U.S. troops landed on Eniwetok, while the Navy made its fierce raid on Truk...