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...Temporary command of Gibraltar, Lord Gort's previous post, fell to Major General Sir Colin Jardine, 49, who served under the Tiger with the B.E.F. in France...
...correspondent cabled: "The offensive, in which American pilots and planes are taking a notable part, is larger and more sustained than when the Battle of Britain was at its height in August and September 1940." Colin Bednall of the London Daily Mail computed that 250-350 tons a night were being dropped on the Reich, which compared favorably with the Luftwaffe's droppings over London: on only two occasions were the Germans estimated to have dropped as much as 400 tons a night...
...prize catch was one battleship (the Haruna) sunk by Captain Colin Kelly off Luzon, and a fair swap for the sinking of the one battleship (Arizona) irrevocably lost at Pearl Harbor. Other Japanese warships also sunk: one carrier, four cruisers, ten destroyers, seven submarines. Noncombatant ships (freighters, tankers, etc.) known sunk...
...rear admirals), delegates saluted each other with five outstretched fingers, representing five of their old boys who had made good: General George Marshall (V.M.I.), General Douglas MacArthur (Texas M.I.), Captain Arthur Wermuth, the "one-man army" in Bataan (Northwestern Academy), Pearl Harbor Air Commander Clarence Tinker (Wentworth), Captain Colin Kelly (Marion...
...continues to withstand the Jap's assaults. Two were in a class by themselves: Second Lieutenant Alexander Ramsey ("Sandy") Nininger Jr., posthumously honored with World War II's first Congressional Medal of Honor for "intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty" (TIME, Feb. 9), and Captain Colin P. Kelly (TIME, Dec. 22), who was awarded a posthumous D.S.C...