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...dusk they maneuvered into the middle of a coastwise convoy of six cargo ships and three small naval vessels. Away went the sub's torpedoes and down went two Jap merchantmen. Klakring let his crew take a look through the periscope at "this very pretty sight." When the other Jap ships, panic-stricken, turned and raced for the shore, Klakring surfaced and gave chase. He dogged one ship into a cove and plumped a torpedo into her middle. It was a lucky hit at long range. But, said Klakring, a soft-spoken Marylander, "If I had missed...
Before Klakring returned to Pearl Harbor he fell upon a cargo vessel plodding all alone up the coast. He torpedoed her and took her picture going down. The results of Klakring's single cruise: sunk, eight ships totaling 70,000 tons; damaged and possibly sunk, four totaling 20,000 tons...
...Department was stumped. As Christmas approached, U.S. soldiers were being flooded with the greatest mass of mail in history-in six weeks 14,000,000 lb. of it (including parcel post), enough to fill a medium-sized cargo ship or 2,000 cargo planes. In the last few weeks the Army Postal Service has delivered 11,000,000 letters a week...
Nevertheless, the War Department had to cut down the volume of cargo space mail was occupying. A month ago War Secretary Stimson pleaded with soldiers not to answer letters from strangers, who might be spies. Peering further, the War Department found misguided patriots contributing to the confusion. In some cases whole counties were writing to Private Johnny Jones of Route 2 to bolster his morale. Teachers found that school children were interested in composition exercises, provided the assigned composition was a letter to a hero...
...average ship from San Francisco to Brisbane hauls 13,000 tons of cargo per round trip, needs a crew of 55, consumes 425,000 gallons of oil, and the operating cost is $120,000. If planes hauled the same cargo, it would take 3,500 crew men, 18,000,000 gallons of gasoline, and cost...