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Napoleon Edward Taylor worked in a Baltimore packing house until he was inducted into a Maryland Negro regiment. In a year or so he was off on a troopship. On June 17, months before the invasion of Morocco and Algeria, Private Taylor and an unrevealed number of his fellow soldiers found themselves off the coast of Africa. They were there to make a peaceful and secret invasion of the Negro republic of Liberia...
...eyes took in two familiar shapes: a pair of Flying Fortresses, in their dull camouflage, standing on the tarmac. Seventeen days had passed since he led them on a flight to the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, where their bombs socked a Jap cruiser and a Jap troopship. On this Sunday morning, he had flown to the airdrome to reward the Fortress crews with Silver Stars* for their coolness and success under Japanese anti-aircraft and fighter fire. That honorable duty done (including the acceptance of a Silver Star himself), he performed one of the routine but important...
...death rate among their pilots may be so suicidal that mass dive-bombing will be undertaken only against such targets as last week's Junkers sighted, moving westerly off Norway: a troopship convoy escorted by warships, including "a battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class ... a cruiser of the York class...
After an interval long enough for the Allied troopship convoy to reach Great Britain, the British Admiralty tersely stated: "The German claim to have sunk a British battleship and a cruiser of the York class in operations off Namsos is untrue." Next day the Admiralty announced that no troopship had been touched, but that the "Stukas," diving wave after wave, did sink the heavy destroyer Afridi. The French Admiralty announced that their destroyer Bison was sunk in the same attack. The Poles in London verified the loss of their destroyer Grom off Narvik...
...lasting far into the night, along the Swedish coast from Goteborg to Stromstad. This time the Allies did their stuff. Swedes reported four Nazi cruisers were sunk and eight out of ten transports sent down or ashore. The sea was filled with dead, dying, drowning soldiers. Nevertheless, one German troopship managed to slip through to Oslo. All this fighting was apparently done by submarines and destroyers. Larger Allied ships were not risked close...