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...Ranger's greatest feat was to spearhead a British task force last October in a daring raid into Norwegian waters, well within range of German land-based bombers. In two attacks the carrier's planes sank four merchantmen, a tanker and an oil barge, damaged other ships and shot down a Junkers 88 and a Messerschmitt 115. The carrier was undamaged, lost only three planes. When she got back to port, British warcraft "cheered the ship" as she passed down the line, in a rare salute to a U.S. Navy ship and crew...
...were moving closer toward the harbor when the whole area lighted to a white blinding intensity," Lang cabled. "Then a great weight hit me and I found myself flat on the pavement. I saw a huge rolling mass of flame a thousand feet in the air: a tanker had blown up 300 yards from us. Tied up just before us was another tanker; it could blow up any moment. 'Let's get out of here!' I shouted, and we climbed to the top of a nearby building and looked over the fiery panorama. Through the smoke...
...Petroleum Boss Harold Ickes (who is supposed to coordinate all Government oil activities) heard about Canol through Washington gossip. He found Canol "well-nigh fantastic." He told General Somervell that one U.S. tanker, making four trips, could supply the Alaska Highway with as much aviation gas as the Army's whole costly drilling-piping-refining project. General Somervell was not impressed...
...Once Barrymore's yacht frantically signaled a tanker. Queried the tanker: "Do you need water?" "God, no!" Barrymore signaled back, "we need booze...
...General Douglas MacArthur's limited forces will land on New Britain may not be too far off. The Jap was preparing. Allied reconnaissance spotted a flow of Jap shipping toward Rabaul. Not all the enemy got through: U.S. Navy Catalinas and U.S. Liberators hit two destroyers, set a tanker afire, sank a 10,000-ton transport...