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...Skua's bomb hit a Condottieri (light) cruiser; fire from the Renown and the British cruisers damaged another heavy cruiser and two destroyers. Total: six strikes, which reduced Italy's serviceable battleships to two, her cruisers to 16, as against only one British ship struck, the cruiser Berwick, which lost seven men killed, nine injured when hit by two shells, but was still ready for action...
...make up the First Armored Corps, Adna Chaffee could see and hear the good results of Army foresight. Part of it came in the kind of officers he was getting-the best the service has. More of it came from the sprawling plant of American Car & Foundry Co. at Berwick...
...rolling fortresses to cost around $11,500,000 (about $18,000 apiece). Cheering thing to Army men about the order was that they were sure of pretty fast delivery. For under a previous educational order (for 329 tanks at about $6,000,000) A. C. F.'s Berwick plant was already turning out twelve-tonners at the rate of two a day, expected by September to have upped the rate to five...
...other great railroad equipment companies, on the trickle of orders from the U. S.'s No. i transportation medium, A. C. F. turned to tanks with gusto. To handle the Army order, plus $12,000,000 in contracts from the Allies for shells, A. C. F.'s Berwick plant boss, spectacled, trap-mouthed Guy C. Beishline built three new plant additions, started an ordnance department, filled it with annealing hearths, lathes, other machine tools. A. C. F.'s flint-shelled armor plate for tanks is made by a secret process, involving endless steel treating and hardening...
What the raiders found out about Nazi preparations to cross the Channel, the British War Office kept to itself. But the British east coast, from Berwick-on-Tweed on the Scottish border around to Hastings on the Channel, where William the Conqueror conquered, was proclaimed a defense zone and its inhabitants packed up. Britain's bathing beaches became a barbed-wire front. A huge fleet of fishing craft to transport troops in small groups was reported being assembled by the Germans along the Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts...