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...Navy repaid in kind. In a single week (ending March 6), U.S. submarines in the western Pacific sank one big Jap destroyer, one large naval tanker; hit and "definitely put out of action" one Jap aircraft carrier, three cruisers. U.S. guns, torpedoes and bombs had sunk 138 Jap vessels to date, sunk or damaged 20 Japanese cruisers-almost half of Japan's known cruiser strength...
Earlier it was announced that the 6,700 ton Gulf Corporation tanker Gulf-trade was torpedoed and sunk early this morning just three miles off New Jersey and only 60 miles south of New York. Eighteen of her crew are missing...
...Cities Service Empire went down, torpedoed and burning off Florida, 30 were saved, eleven lost. Said John Walsh, wiper: "I saw our captain on a life raft. He and some of the other men were on it and the current was sucking them into the burning oil around the tanker. I last saw the captain going into a sheet of orange flame. Some of the fellows said he screamed. I didn't hear him. . . . Monroe Reynolds was with me for a while. He was screaming that he was going blind. . . . Gus, the quartermaster, was with...
...Tanker shipments of oil to the U.S. Eastern Seaboard were 40% below demand last week. In New York City, the normal two months' stock of heating oil was down to a few days' supply. Between torpedoes and tanker diversion, the Eastern oil shortage (TIME, March 2) was getting acute...
...allocate for such a line last fall). Rail tank cars ran day & night, in the week ending Feb. 21 carried a record 326,636 barrels; but their best was about 20% of Eastern demand. Moreover, around 3,000 cars had to be kept on the Pacific Coast, where tanker-dependent Oregon and Washington also face a shortage...