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Last January Graebner returned to the U.S. aboard a British cruiser. On the way over he got a dramatic sea-level view of the Battle of the Atlantic, for 26 U-boats were plotted on the ship's course between Ireland and Newfoundland. Since then he has been writing his personal knowledge and experiences into TIME'S Foreign News—and getting reacquainted with his family with whom he has spent only 14 weeks in the past two and a half years...
Labrador's air base is merely one in a string, stretching northward from Newfoundland to Baffin Island. From Newfoundland and Labrador planes fly a constant anti-submarine patrol. The Labrador fields, although north of the Army's bases in Newfoundland, are better off for all-year flying than those in Newfoundland. Reason: Newfoundland's persistent, plaguing fogs, which have often interrupted but never halted bomber deliveries to Britain. Even Greenland's vast, inland icecap is not the hazard which most people suppose it to be. Says the U.S. Army Air Corps Arctic Manual (published...
...bases abroad, rabbis this week will conduct the Seder ceremonies of Passover for Jews in the armed forces. To the six bases without rabbis (Alaska, Newfoundland, Trinidad, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Cuba), the Jewish Welfare Board assigned civilian rabbis from...
...badly. German torpedoes sent to the bottom a Canadian corvette and a Free French corvette, damaged a U.S. Coast Guard cutter so severely that it turned over while being towed to port and had to be sunk. Storm and high seas wrecked a U.S. destroyer and supply ship off Newfoundland (see p. 24). Tankers in U.S. coastal waters took a beating (see col. 2). The Germans claimed that seven ships totaling 52,000 tons had been destroyed in a running attack on one convoy -a claim brutally confirmed when in survivors landed in Canada. They estimated that six to nine...
West of the U.S. naval base at St. John's, Newfoundland, a long spit of land juts southwest toward the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. Lieut. Commander Ralph Hickox, skipper of the elderly flush-deck destroyer Truxtun, knew he was somewhere near the end of the spit, but he could not see. The wind was blowing more than 60 miles an hour and low-flying scud dropped the visibility toward zero. The Truxtun ran aground. So did the naval supply ship Pollux. The waves, pounding in like sledgehammers to the base of a 200-ft. cliff, began...