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From at least two of its eight new base sites (Newfoundland & Bermuda) last week long-range patrol planes joined the U. S. Navy's patrol force guarding the Atlantic approaches to the U. S. and Canada. Just eleven weeks before the Navy had been promised the new bases from Great Britain in trade for 50 overage destroyers. By last week it was not only using two of them but also had reached agreement with Britain upon the exact sites for U. S. land plane, seaplane and naval bases on all but one of the New World islands and continental...
...Newfoundland, 400 miles long, fertile and flat, is rimmed by high (200-ft.) rock walls. For a naval base there, the Navy chose 22 acres on the south side of St. John's Harbor. On landlocked Placentia Bay it took an area of two square miles for an air base and training ground for the U. S. Army...
...naval operations off Newfoundland in winter are difficult at best. But from the island, long-range submarines and cruising ships can keep an eye on Greenland, 950 miles away, and patrol the sea lanes from Europe to Montreal, Boston and New York City...
Last week engineers were hard at work in Bermuda (most important of the eight bases), reconditioning and expanding the new U. S. outpost. There, at Newfoundland and at Jamaica a lot of work must be done before base sites become effective bases. The job will take both time and money - of which money last week seemed to be the more plentiful...
...Greenland and Iceland, high over the crinkled fjords of farthest Norway. They hunted a killer-the German surface raider, probably the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer or Lützow, which last fortnight fell upon a big British convoy in Lat. 52°N., Long. 32°W., halfway between Newfoundland and Eire (TIME...