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...destroyers and sank all twelve. British submarines, raiding the overwater supply line to Rommel in North Africa, sank 1,335,000 tons of Axis shipping. Malta, bombed and isolated, faced starvation, and between January and August 1942 British warships convoying merchantmen made six attempts to go to her succor, punched through four battered convoys. The aircraft carrier Eagle was lost with some destroyers, thousands of merchant tons...
...Said Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox this week: "The war has descended to the lowest levels of barbarism. A few days ago a marine at Guadalcanal sought to succor a wounded Japanese, only to be killed by the man he tried to help. Navy pilots, bailing out, have been machine-gunned by the enemy on the way down. Next day, Japanese military spokesmen said captured American airmen, who had allegedly taken part in the April 18 raid on Japan, would be "severely punished in accordance with international law for inhuman acts...
Tokyo claimed last week that Japanese aircraft had bombed and seriously damaged "a specially converted aircraft carrier" in Java waters. If U.S. aircraft carriers or converted transports had entered the Japanese-dominated Indies waters, then the U.S. had taken substantial risks to succor Java...
Presently the O-8 and the O10 reappeared. The O-9 did not. That afternoon, the Navy announced that she was missing. Then, in the same waters where the Squalus vanished two years ago (saved: 33; lost: 26), another drama of succor unfolded. The salvage boat Falcon, with divers who had gone down to the Squalus at 240 feet, had labored there at the peril of their lives; other submarines, destroyers, tugs, airplanes, searchlights when night fell-all were there...
...their mortal peril," said a grave and sorrowful Churchill, "the Greeks turned to us for succor. . . . They declared they would fight for their native soil . . . even if we left them to their fate. But we could not do that. There are rules against that kind of thing. . . . An act of shame would deprive us of . . . respect . . . and thus would sap the vitals of our strength...