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...from Henderson Field 25 miles away. Last week a strong body of U.S. troops suddenly showed itself in "a strong position" near the little Melanesian Mission station of Marovovo on the opposite shore. How they got there was not explained. If by land, they would have had to march overland more than 40 miles, through the harshest kind of mountains and jungle. It was possible they had come by sea, in the transports the Japs attacked off Rennell Island. However they got there, their arrival put the Japs...
...plenty of tankers. This is a fuel war, yet the Japs have enough tankers to use them for other military cargoes. The Japs have also converted whalers to be seaplane and landing-craft tenders, and they are now busily building a fleet of wooden junks, for coastal bay-hopping. Overland routes on the continent are beginning to relieve coastal shipping of part of its load. So far, Japan's shipping shortage is less acute than that of the Allies...
...Burden. Plainly the United Nations are barely holding their own on the sea front-if they are not indeed losing way. According to all signs, the strength of Germany's undersea fleet is increasing. Despite Germany's need of overland transport facilities, submarine building still holds No. 1 priority. Allied bombers, soaring over the great submarine base at Lorient, have been none too effective...
...encirclements near Stalingrad were mutual: a great German army was hemmed between the Don and the Volga, but the Russian forces in their wedges were also between German armies. Both sides depended on corridors for overland supply...
...Axis had two other pressure weapons. One was economic strangulation. Switzerland's main economic life line, through the Mediterranean and north Italy, had become a very thin thread susceptible to being pinched off at half a dozen points. Her secondary life line, overland from Lisbon through France, could be cut at any moment. Finally, with troops on every frontier, the Germans had the weapon of military invasion...