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...hours before the staunch dirigible Norge swooped slowly to her mooring mast at desolate Vadso on the north tip of Scandinavia, 700 miles from Leningrad (where she had waited two weeks for repairs and good weather on her way from Rome-to-Nome). Pausing only long-enough to refuel and bundle themselves more thickly in furs, Colonel Nobile and his mates cast off again and sailed all through another Arctic night, out over Barent's ice-strewn sea for Spitzbergen. The headwinds that had buffeted the Norge over Russia, causing her to wallow and pitch like a great grey...
...navigated (used instruments) but had piloted their plane by "familiar" landmarks remembered from the trip up. A buffeting headwind threw their calculations off a lot, and when they reached the Yukon they were far to the east of their course. Eielson had recognized Circle City; they had descended to refuel and pass the night...
...days, the fleet will be on its own, relying on itself entirely for fuel, for food. At Pago Pago, the ships will refuel from their own tankers-an operation that, it is hoped, will take no more than twelve hours-and again the fleet will bear away, to the southeast. The cruiser squadron headed by the Seattle with three Admirals aboard- Coontz, Cole and Leigh-will go to Melbourne, Australia. The battle fleet, headed by the California under Admiral S. S. Robison, will go to Sydney, New Zealand. Later, a light cruiser squadron will go on from Melbourne to Hobart...