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...survivor, safe in a British port, told how the huge pack of U-boats had closed in on his convoy one dim evening. Losses were heavy in the night. After his ship was sunk the next day, he saw R.A.F. Sunder-lands and Catalinas, and later land-based bombers, attack the pack. The survivor doubted German claims that the U-boats had put down 32 eastbound Allied ships totaling 204,000 tons...
Next morning little remained afloat except flotsam, human wreckage and oil splattering 20 square miles of Huon Gulf. On that day, two crippled destroyers were blasted to the bottom. They were the last of the convoy...
Battle Scores. According to U.S. figures, the Japs lost three light cruisers, seven destroyers and twelve merchant ships, and 15,000 troops. Of the 150 planes which tried to save the convoy, 102 were put out of action. For this clean victory, the U.S. paid: One heavy bomber, three fighters. Of the 136 U.S. planes in battle, 132 returned...
...planes, carefully coordinated, over a concentration of ships and their escorting aircraft. Bombers operating at all angles and altitudes had shown new accuracy. But heavy and medium bombers, coming in low, had dealt the deathblows. U.S. airmen's bumbling failure to halt or even hit a similar Jap convoy bound for New Guinea last July had been retrieved...
Supplies for the South. To sustain themselves the Allies have had to move supplies under heavy convoy across thousands of miles of ocean, and then over hundreds of miles of muddy mountain highways and desert trails...