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Emory S. ("Red") Wages Jr., the pudgy genial Georgian who regaled the squadron's junior officers with tales of his amours, went out on a search one day, tapped out a last message about low gas, and went in. Oran ("Fig") Newton Jr., who had animal nicknames for most of the boys, such as Al Dog for Wright and Red Bird for Wages, was shot out of a dive by A.A. That was all: two pilots. Four enlisted men are missing...
...building major bases around the world. New ones now at Casablanca, at Oran, and soon, I hope, at Bizerte. Right now we are preparing to establish air and naval facilities at Dakar. We have a tremendous installation in the Persian Gulf. We have built bases along the shores of the Red Sea area, initially to support the British Middle Eastern operations and now for our own air force in that theater. We have run a double track across equatorial Africa. We have established, with the cooperation of Brazil, air facilities in the bulge of Brazil. We have lookouts strung clear...
London admitted: losses at Oran and Algiers included the Netherlands destroyer Isaac Sweers, the small British aircraft carrier Avenger (a Lend-Lease converted U.S. merchant ship), three British destroyers, five other small vessels and two ex-U.S. Coast Guard cutters, the Walney and Hartland, which, licked by flames, crashed through a boom at Oran into the inner harbor and landed troops before they sank...
Roar followed roar from all parts of the harbor as ship after ship exploded. German troops raced for the Vauban Basin where the battleship Dunkerque had been tied up for repairs since the British attack on Oran in July 1940. Near by were the cruisers Algérie, Foch and Jean de Vienne; their docks were wrecked with them. Earth and air trembled as the beautiful ships destroyed themselves...
...which the U.S. lost 860 men "killed or missing" and 1,050 "wounded," according to the War Department. Most of the losses were incurred in seizing Oran and Casablanca from the French...