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Survivors who reached Canada last week told how the Nazis fell first on the slower of two westbound convoys. Night & day the waddling cargo ships and their escorts were under attack or threat of attack. According to the survivors, at least ten vessels were sunk. One of them was the Canadian destroyer St. Croix, formerly the U.S.S. McCook. The St. Croix was picking up the crews of other luckless vessels when a torpedo hit her. She went down in a small-size holocaust, taking all but one of her 147-man crew...
...other warships were reported sunk. So hot was the going that the two convoys united, then had some 18 escorts for 70 cargo ships. A German communiqué indicated that the subs had deliberately concentrated on escort ships rather than merchantmen...
...Commando (C-46), specifically built for the job and already proven as a rugged, speedy carrier of big loads. The second, with which airmen are even better pleased, is Douglas' Skymaster (C-54), a four-engined modification of the DC-4. The third is the (EUR-87), a cargo modification of the 6-24. It is probably the fastest of the transports, is particularly well-adapted to-the transocean lugging of heavy, concentrated, equipment...
...Boats. The LST, 327 ft. long and 5,500 tons, is really a medium-sized freighter whose bow gapes open like jaws to discharge cargo. Developed late in 1941, the vessel was a peculiarly tough problem in design, since it had to be capable of carrying and loading hundreds of tons of tanks, seaworthy enough to cross oceans under its own power, shallow-draft enough to put the tanks directly ashore. It carries a full operational crew and is usually commanded by a senior grade lieutenant, Navy or Coast Guard...
...which carries a crew of four and a medium tank. As an intermediate step between this small boat and the ocean-going LST, the Navy designed a 100-ft. LCT (Landing Craft, Tank), which can be carried to zones of operation on the deck of an LST or a cargo vessel...