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Against these still remote possibilities, Admiral Sadler told what the Navy is doing to extend its Pacific defenses: four bases for patrol seaplanes, also usable for Navy light craft. Farthest flung will be Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, astride the Equator, 1,000 miles from the Big Ditch. There, in...
Meanwhile, with ostentatious secrecy, a destroyer flotilla of the U. S. Navy departed on a mystery voyage to waters near Martinique. With rumors multiplying of the Vichy Government's aggressive collaboration with Hitler, with Vice Premier Laval asserting that democracy throughout the world was dead, with no U. S...
Minister Cross did not mention the fact, ascertained by neutral observers last week, that Britain's destroyers in home waters were now whittled down to about 60, with a like number laid up for repairs. To eke out surface escorts, big British seaplanes now fly convoy far out over...
U. S. communications to the Caribbean lie south along the U. S. coast from the Atlantic seaboard, across the Gulf of Mexico (a near-impregnable American lake) from the oil centres at New Orleans, Houston, Galveston, and down Mexico's coast via the Canal from the Pacific. U. S...
With no time to spare, Hero Bristowe and crew reached and repassed the barrage net, which luckily enmeshed their pursuers. Dawn broke in time for them to see the Richelieu's grand finale. Seaplanes from the Hermes came skimming in and loosed five long-snouted sea torpedoes. Titanic explosions...