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...converted or built from merchant hulls, do not carry many planes-a few fighters, and torpedo bombers which carry depth charges-but with those planes they can provide extensive cover for convoys beyond the range of land-based patrol planes. When the Allies announced the formation of an "air umbrella" which would provide air protection for convoys from continent to continent (TIME, May 10), escort carriers took over in that loneliest spot of the convoy lanes where the land-based planes turn back and leave the ships on their...
...beamed at the ship's performance. The Navy has stated its objections to the ships: too slow for most combat jobs, too short to launch their planes on calm days, except with catapults. But the ships are fast enough to keep up with merchant convoys, to spread an umbrella of planes over them to fight U-boats. On their ability to do that well, the President and Kaiser have gambled. Only the Battle of the Atlantic can give the final payoff...
...conquest of larger, blockade-free Sicily, next logical step on the way to Rome, will be no pushover, even though Allied bombers based on Pantelleria and nearby Lampedusa can have an umbrella of fighter escorts. Early this week Flying Fortresses plastered three of Sicily's major airdromes, while British Fleet units moved in closer to the Sicilian mainland...
...miles at sea, and the number of air actions against submarines has multiplied many times. This cover is being extended also from the U.S. and Canadian coasts. But still longer range planes, or bases on the Atlantic islands, will be needed to provide a complete, land-based umbrella...
Last week, in the Caucasus, the Russians drove home the first major blow of the spring. Under an umbrella of air power, Red divisions stormed Hitler's vital Kuban bridgehead, crashed through Krimsk, 15 miles northeast of Novorossüsk, and split the German forces in two. Three hundred barges full of Red marines landed on the north shore of the Taman Peninsula, attacked the Germans from the rear. These successes endangered Hitler's last position on the eastern shore of the Black...