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...Said Albuquerque's Dr. V. H. Spensley, a dentist whose son died in a Jap prison camp: "I can't understand why such information should be brought out now . . . except to sell bonds. For that purpose it's absolutely rotten. If the morality of America has sunk so low it required this kind of propaganda to sell bonds, we wonder what the boys are fighting...
Submarines of Britain's Royal Navy have sunk more than 1,250,000 tons of Axis shipping in the Mediterranean alone since war began. As commander of His Majesty's Submarine Safari, and other submarines, handsome, whimsical, young (29) Lieut. Richard Barklie Lakin, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., has had his share of kills. In his words, this is part of his story as he told it in New York City last week...
Guadalcanal to Tarawa. Under Turner's immediate command, the new amphibious forces invaded Guadalcanal. Screening warships, unaccustomed to this new kind of mission, were caught napping by Jap cruisers. In a few agonizing hours on a rainy August night, four Allied cruisers were sunk. Naked transports carrying precious supplies brought thousands of miles were hastily withdrawn. For three months the Marines fought without substantial supplies or reinforcements and cursed the Navy...
Melodramatically salvation heaves in sight. A German supply ship and an Allied ship stage a shelling duel. The German ship is sunk...
...that was not the day. The firing had started when British watchers discovered a convoy of German ships trying to ghost northward through the English Channel, hugging the coast at Cape Gris-Nez. Two hundred shells were fired. One large enemy merchant vessel was sunk, another was hard hit. From this German willingness to risk ships in the Channel shooting gallery, Allied commanders judged that the steady air pounding of French railroads and communications must be snarling normal overland supply lines behind the Invasion Coast...