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...routes, try to iron out some of the grave questions which have U.S. airline operators in a tailspin. Besides President Roosevelt the conferees included members of the Pacific War Council (with tall, gaunt Lord Halifax representing Britain), top-drawer officials from the State Department and the Army-Navy air-cargo divisions, a handful of U.S. airline operators, headed by smart, suave Pan American Airways President Juan Trippe...
...sighted the submarines first in mid-Atlantic and for four days, in light and darkness, fought off the raiders with gunfire and depth charges. U.S. Navy and British Coastal Command planes patrolled the skies, swooping down on any sub bold enough to surface. Two submarines were probably destroyed. "Some" cargo carriers were sunk. The rest of the convoy, part of it probably destined for Russia, reached England intact...
...ocean supply lines. Stories of vessels sunk, of seamen drifting for weeks on winter seas, had become a dreary and bitter routine. Into Boston last week came the crew of a Panama freighter. Missing were an engineer, a gunner and the chief cook. Five hundred monkeys, part of the cargo, had drowned when the Panamanian was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean...
...ingenuity into his U-boat campaign. South Africa reported huge German craft clustered thickly around Portuguese Lourengo Marques, sinking Allied ships with a frequency that shook South African morale. From Stockholm came a German writer's story of a new wrinkle: submersible barges towed by cargo-carrying subs to refuel and supply U-boats far from home...
Since then he has been on many. Best record is three cargo ships, two light cruisers and three destroyers sunk with 30 bombs. Bill Benn himself holds the D.S.C. for being our in front when 100,000 tons of Jap shipping were sunk...