Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...dread throughout Japan's annual "Aviation Day" last week. Speakers warned the man-in-the-street of raids to come, pleaded for more and better planes. An Army spokesman said-falsely-that Attu was reduced mainly by air action. Another spokesman confessed that an entire Japanese convoy was sunk in the Bismarck Sea last March by Allied bombers. Earlier, a Home Ministry official had told the people that Japan's matchwood houses are "ideal for defense," for "there is no danger of being buried under bricks during air raids...
...position. In the Mediterranean we had three cruisers left. . . ." The three cruisers, screened by a few destroyers, bluffed Italy's fleet of 19 cruisers and six battleships, numerous destroyers and submarines. Two of the cruisers, the Aurora and Penelope, with the destroyers Lance and Lively, intercepted one Axis convoy of ten cargo ships and two destroyers and sank all twelve. British submarines, raiding the overwater supply line to Rommel in North Africa, sank 1,335,000 tons of Axis shipping. Malta, bombed and isolated, faced starvation, and between January and August 1942 British warships convoying merchantmen made six attempts...