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...Tunisian commander, Major General Walther Nehring. Some of them were transported by huge Ju-528, which Allied planes chased and harassed. Many of them poured in from ships that made the short dash from Sicily. The British Admiralty announced that British subs sank nine of these vessels: tankers and cargo carriers laden with tanks, guns, materiel. But Axis ships continued to land at Bizerte at the rate of two a day. Estimates were that Nehring's force now numbered between...
...after Admiral Lee's battle, a U.S. force found four Japanese cargo vessels beached about seven and one-half miles west of U.S. positions on Guadalcanal. With the help of aircraft from Henderson field, the vessels were destroyed...
Adding the score of the final engagement, announced last week, to that previously announced (TIME, Nov. 23), the Japs suffered the following sinkings: one battleship, another battleship or a very large cruiser, eight cruisers, six destroyers, eight troop transports, four cargo ships. They also lost a huge number of ground troops who had been taking their last ferry trip-between 20,000 and 40,000, Admiral Nimitz estimated...
...Andrew Campriello, spot welder of Italian parentage, developed a better welding technique on steel cases for enclosing electrical equipment aboard cargo ships. Time saved: 3,000 man-hours a year. Award...
...Axel Johnson, Swedish-born 45-year-old, designed a pattern change that saves enough steel in a year to make 44,000 bayonets, will cut man-hour time on production of cargo-vessel electrical parts by 10%. Award...