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...virtually every American heavy bomber and naval vessel carried anti-radar equipment designed by the R.R.L; the United States and Great Britain spent more than 175 million dollars for R.R.L. designed equipment...
...future promotion. ¶ The question of whether or not Cordell Hull's blast of Nov. 26, 1941 actually set off the war (as the Army Pearl Harbor Board had charged) was apparently settled; it did not. Navy Secretary Forrestal reported the finding of documents in a sunken Jap vessel which showed that the Pearl Harbor attack had been approved by the Jap High Command early in November 1941 and that the Imperial General Headquarters had set the date...
...arrest was ordered. In a second-rate hotel near the Plata estuary, where he was hiding with exactress Duarte and $50,000 in cash, the late master of 14,000,000 Argentines meekly surrendered. Twenty-four hours later, Perón was duly packed aboard a small naval vessel, shipped off to Martin Garcia concentration camp. There he joined the company of political prisoners whom he had locked...
Short Careers. The U.S. Maritime Commission put up for sale, as junk, four Liberty ships war-damaged beyond repair. Two of them had been torpedoed, one had been bombed, one had crashed into another vessel, was gutted by fire. If the ships are bought for scrap, purchasers must agree to destroy all motors, engines and other salvageable gear. Reason: to keep these items off an already glutted market. So far the Maritime Commission has received bids for two of the ships: $3,100 and $9,100 (they had cost upward of $1.5 million apiece...
...reports for the first time gave eye-popping details of the Jap attack. On Nov. 27-28, a Jap task force, carefully and particularly trained for its mission, set sail from Tankan Bay in northern Japan and headed east, in radio silence. Its orders were to sink any vessel it should meet, even Japanese; nothing must be left to a chance betrayal of its course. In the force were six carriers carrying (said the Board) some 424 planes,*two battleships, three cruisers and a destroyer division...