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In two and a half weeks the reported toll of submarine operations along the East Coast was twelve ships, some 350 lives. The day the Lady Hawkins' fate became known coast guardsmen landed at Chincoteague, Va. a handful of near-dead seamen, survivors of the torpedoed tanker Francis E...
>In the attack on Oahu a suspicious object was sighted in the prohibited areas off Pearl Harbor at 6:30 a.m. Between 6:33 and 6:45 this object, which was a small submarine, was attacked and sunk by the concerted action of a naval patrol plane and the U.S.S...
Then the enemy came by sea. Rabaul sighted three carriers, five transports near its harbor, saw planes overhead. Aussie militiamen radioed that they would blow up the town's wharf and power station and retreat fighting. Then no more was heard from Rabaul by radio. The Jap landed in...
The prosecution of the war is determining to a large extent exactly what the position of the participating members of the future world will be, and the relations between these powers during the war is determining the practical basis of any form of world cooperation. Here is where our ideas...
So hotel men in Bizerte, Dakar, Casablanca brushed up their German, grinned with short-sighted satisfaction as their rooms filled up with men who paid their bills, made no complaints, ate early breakfasts and disappeared all day.