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From New Guinea a convoy of cruisers, destroyers and amphibious craft, led by Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, Southwest Pacific naval chief, slid into the night, crossed the waters to Cape Gloucester on New Britain's western tip. Early in the morning after Christmas, naval guns pummeled the dim Jap shore, waves of Army Liberators and Mitchells raked the enemy's defenses, laid a screen of TIME, JANUARY 3, 1944 smoke bombs. Minutes later the first landing barge hit the beach. Out spilled U.S. Marines, tough veterans of Guadalcanal, under the command of Major General William H. Rupertus...
...Bari itself was an incidental target. The bombers which had somehow slipped through the screen of overwhelming Allied air superiority headed for the harbor, studded with ships of a newly arrived convoy. Two ammunition vessels blew up, setting their neighbors ablaze. From other bombed ships thick, pitch-black smoke began to wallow towards the blue sky. Here and there ack-ack guns barked angrily-too late...
...vote gave tangible proportions to a fretting issue between the U.S. and Great Britain. Iceland, united with Denmark under the King, was first occupied by British troops in May 1940, then garrisoned by U.S. soldiers in July 1941. A valuable way station on the convoy routes of war, it would also be an important stopover for postwar transatlantic air routes. Under its union agreement with Denmark (made in 1918 and considered inoperative as a result of Denmark's occupation), Iceland could act for independence any time after Jan. 1, 1944. Against that day the U.S. and Great Britain have...
...British Naval force on patrol ran afoul of a well-protected German convoy in the English Channel last week. The 5,450-ton British cruiser Charybdis was sunk by torpedoes and H.M. destroyer Limbourne, also torpedoed, was later abandoned and sunk by the British. The Germans seemingly got away scot-free in the first major naval engagement in the Channel since the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen fled from Brest past Dover's white cliffs...
...last Oct. 4; some six weeks after being taken ill while returning from the Quebec Conference; in London. Son of an English lawyer and Boston-born mother, cock-hatted, hawk-faced Sir Dudley commanded a man-of-war at Jutland, later helped set up Britain's convoy system. In World War II he brilliantly organized supplies, blockades...