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Reconstruction. Londoners were determined to turn Hitler's destruction into a "Heaven-sent" opportunity for civic improvement, and as dynamite squads reduced tottering walls and chimneys, the press blossomed with articles on post-war construction. Wrote Donald Evelyn Edward Gibson, architect assigned to the task of rebuilding Coventry: "[London...
Preparations for South Atlantic raiding -this time by submarines-were as well laid. From the U. S. Algic, 900 miles off Angola, crackled the message: "Sighted suspicious vessel, large, white-painted, built similar to tanker, surrounded by four small craft, apparently submarines." Same day the tanker British Zeal was torpedoed...
Wolf Sighted. About 700 miles northeast of Montevideo, H. M. S. merchant cruiser Carnarvon Castle (20,122-ton motorship, former star of the Capetown run ) sighted a suspicious vessel, apparently a merchantman, but long, lean and low. The Britisher signaled "Stop!"' The stranger, speeding ahead, replied with a salvo...
Last week, radio and cable on the Fiji Islands, 2,500 miles south and west of their destination, the Marquesas, began spelling out high adventure's ending. According to the messages, a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary, skirting the jungly, palm-lined shore of Vanua Levu Island in his ketch...
When they got south of Sardinia, the prayer of Sir James's men was answered. Their air scouts reported that two Italian battleships (of the three Italy had left in commission), surrounded by numerous cruisers and destroyers, were at sea 75 miles northeast of the advance British cruiser force...