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Atlantic. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill confirmed what Navy men have known for weeks: the Nazis have failed miserably in their autumn "comeback" in the Atlantic. In August, September and October approximately 60 U-boats were destroyed. Of these at least 21 were sunk by U.S. carrier-based aircraft. In the last six months the Nazis certainly have lost 150 of their 400-500 submarines, probably many more...
...well and audaciously the U.S. submarine fleet has operated was attested to this week when the Navy announced the sinking, by submarines, of seven more Jap ships making the score for U.S. subs: 346 Jap ships sunk, 36 probably sunk, 114 damaged. Submariners have accounted for 77% of the total enemy shipping sunk or damaged in the Pacific...
Atlantic. War Reporters Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill prepared their monthly statement on U-boat warfare, which in October went swimmingly for the Allies, sinkingly for the Nazis. U-boats were out in force. They not only failed to press home their attacks but were sunk in large numbers, as planes from U.S. "baby flattops" (converted merchantmen) pounded them silly. Allied production, plus a net gain of 170,000 tons of Italian shipping, put the Allies far in the black...
...seven carriers when war began. Four were sunk, leaving, for a time, three, which were seldom all in service simultaneously, because of damage. But eight new battle carriers of the 25,000-ton Essex class and nine new Princetons, converted to carriers from cruisers, have been launched and are or soon will be in service. Most of these 20 carriers can be used in the Pacific, for scores of small converted-merchantmen carriers can do the anti-submarine work of the Atlantic...
Chief benefit of the new brown-out regulations to the ordinary, run-of-the-mill Harvard student will be that he need have no guilty feeling of having sunk a ship by forgetting to pull down his window-shades. The popularity of Widener's main reading room is expected to increase tremendously as bleary-eyed students are granted enough light to read...