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...Royal Navy submarines sank five cargo ships that were trying to run the gantlet from Sicily. The submarines surfaced along the Italian coast and shelled trains and factories. Bad news for Italians was the report that Senegalese soldiers of the French colonial armies were joining Eisenhower's command. In French West Africa were more than 50,000 of the ferocious, black warriors, whom the Italians dread...
Tojo's implication that such raw materials were reaching Nazi Europe in quantity had a kernel of truth despite the strain on Japanese shipping (see below). The first considerable Japanese shipment, mostly rubber, reached Germany last summer. Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare believes the cargo was sailed from Indo-China to West Africa and transferred to small coastal craft; by night these vessels ran the blockade to French Mediterranean ports...
...Indian Ocean one of them was intercepted recently by Allied naval forces. At first the 8,000-ton cargo ship hoisted a neutral flag, gave the name of a neutral vessel, but in misspelling the name tipped its game. When Allied warships opened fire the crew scuttled the ship. Seventy-eight Germans were captured. From them it was learned that the ship, en route from Japan to Germany with a valuable cargo, was a blockade runner...
...Solomon made two prophetic moves: 1) he petitioned CAA to start a postgraduate pilot-training school; 2) he asked CAB for a route extension from Moncton to Newfoundland. Came Pearl Harbor, and Northeast had a head start on most other U.S. airlines. The Army promptly gave it air cargo routes across the Atlantic to Scotland, tossed in a fat pilot-training program to boot...
...work Northeast does these days is a military secret. But it is no secret that the sturdy planes Northeast once shuttled between peaceful Yankee airports have since flown almost 750,000 miles over the stormy Atlantic, wings down with military and diplomatic passengers, tons of vital war cargo. Furthermore, thousands of England-bound bombers and fighters have checked through Northeast's airports before making the long over-water hop. And Northeast's efficient pilot school at Burlington, Vt. is already turning out scores of polished pilots monthly, will soon be expanded anew...