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While Taranto was in progress, Vice Admiral Sir Henry Daniel Pridham-Whippell trounced an Italian convoy in the Strait of Otranto, and A.B.C. signaled: "I trust you had many opportunities of using your heavy mashie." The Vice Admiral, a naval golf champion, flashed back "a detailed affirmative...
...tangible evidence that they expected an attack soon: according to London reports, a German force of between 80 and 100 heavy torpedo bombers had been shifted from Norway to Sicily. These bombers, commanded by Luftwaffe General Hans Jürgen Stumpff, caused great losses on the Allies' northern convoy route to Murmansk last year, and they could be dangerous to any invasion fleet in the western Mediterranean...
...German High Command admitted a bitter truth last week: U-boat sinkings in April were less than half the 926,000 tons claimed in March. Berlin's excuses only made the admission more impressive: the weather had been "extraordinarily bad"; it was impossible to watch all the convoy lanes at once; strongly escorted convoys were bagging three and four submarines in each attack...
Forester's ship is the 5,000-ton light cruiser Artemis. Her job: with the help of four other light cruisers and a dozen destroyers, to escort a convoy to Malta. In the Artemis' crow's nest Ordinary Seaman Quimsby, his padded perch whirling "in prodigious circles against the sky," sees a faint wreath of smoke on the Mediterranean skyline and in a few minutes, "climbing over . . . the curve of the world," come six enemy cruisers, vanguard of an Italian force of battleships and destroyers...
...keep Britain alive and functioning as the Allies' European base, 700 to 800 ships must cross the Atlantic each month. Each new Allied war theater means more convoy routes, more targets for Admiral Doenitz' fleet, more dispersal of scant Allied escort ships...