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...Island. Four of her sisters, originally completed as cargo ships, will be commissioned as auxiliary carriers within six months. Two more, still abuilding, can be completed as carriers within a year. The Long Islands, which can make 17-18 knots, have room for 20 planes and are ideal for convoy duty. Unlike their big sisters, who stay far behind the fleet during combat, they will travel safest in the middle of convoys...
Adolf Hitler tried to make the U.S. be lieve that the Kearny was escorting a convoy. From Berlin came a claim that a convoy had been attacked after it entered Germany's combat zone, that ten freighters and two "enemy destroyers" had been sunk. The location was close to the spot where the Kearny was hit. But the fact was that the Kearny, like the Greer, was out sub-hunting when...
WASHINGTON--Administration demands that Congress act quickly to combat unrestricted German warfare in the Atlantic were strongly implemented tonight by the torpedoing and sinking of two more American-owned freighters and disclosure that the U. S. Destroyer Kearny was on convoy duty last Friday when it was attacked off Iceland...
...German High Command last week claimed it had taken up another notch in Britain's belt-by sinking eleven merchantmen out of a convoy of twelve plodding toward Britain off the African coast. In these eleven ships, the Nazis boasted, were cargoes which would have filled 5,500 freight cars-enough food to feed a city like Hull for seven months...
Even when first tried, with only one plane to a convoy (now more and more ships are being equipped), the suicide fighters proved their effectiveness in catching by surprise German bombers who thought they were too far from land to worry about air attack. For some time the British kept their new weapon secret to confuse the German bombers, lead them to think an aircraft carrier must be near...