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...week's end came a frightening announcement: over a period of 48 hours the exultant German High Command issued claims of having sunk 224,000 tons of British shipping, left the world to speculate on how long the job had taken. Moreover, Britain's ship losses were already running at a ruinous 350,000 tons a month, and rumor in London had reported that 600 new submarines would take to the sea lanes with spring...
...Asahi thought it necessary to warn the Foreign Minister that "great prudence and mature consideration are required." Rear Admiral Tanetsugu put Japan's fears in a nutshell: unless Germany and Italy can trap the British Fleet in the Mediterranean, the Admiral wrote, the British Navy will command the Atlantic and the U. S. Navy the Pacific. Then "the new strategy to blockade Japan at a distance may be brought into play...
...Corp. Softspoken, Virginia-born, 33-year-old Joker Moran is famous for having hunted for a needle in a haystack (see cut), sold an icebox to an Eskimo, reenacted the battle of Bunker Hill with twelve strabismic stooges to prove that Colonel Prescott was silly when he issued the command: "Don't fire until you see the white of their eyes...
...command at Manassas II the next year (1862), and he did fail to follow up after a crushing first onslaught, allowing Pope of the North to retreat across Bull Run with most of his army. Lee urged-when he might have compelled-Longstreet to attack a day earlier than he actually did. The day after Longstreet finally came through, rain, mud and hunger were working against successful pursuit...
...Army kept growing in Bulgaria. Field kitchens, supply trucks, oil-tank cars and uniformed war correspondents followed the mechanized fighting forces. In both Bulgaria and Rumania air bases were being multiplied, often with conscripted Jewish labor. Bulgaria's surgeons, doctors and druggists were mobilized for medical service. In command of the Nazis' Balkan operation was Field Marshal Siegmund List, veteran of the invasion of Poland...