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...Ocean 32 18 91 185 365 Fleet...
...deliveries not beginning till 1943, the Navy, like the rest of the U. S. public, had its fingers crossed. The two-ocean Navy is the U. S.'s $7,000,000,000 insurance policy against the dread possibility that Adolf Hitler may defeat Britain and get the British fleet. But that insurance policy will not be fully in force until the last new ship has had its shakedown...
Strategists read into Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham's dramatic appearance with his fleet in the Adriatic last week a gesture of warning and defiance to the Germans: let them not dare to try smuggling troopships down behind the islands along the Yugoslav coast. The R. A. F. bombed an oil refinery near Venice, aimed at a bridge near Fiume, and repeatedly smashed at Mannheim, a rail junction through which German munitions bound for Italy would pass...
...northward. Some of them swept the Italian coast as far as Bari, a harbor right on the Achilles' tendon above Italy's heel. Another detachment swept northeast as far as Durazzo, Albania's second-best landing spot. Sir Andrew was on his flagship, had brought his fleet up on a quick run from the African coast, pausing to contact supply ships, after pounding the daylights out of Bardia and points west. While he was busy at Valona his light forces made it clear to all the world that the Adriatic was no longer Benito Mussolini...
Four nights before, long-range R. A. F. bombers, their course beaconed by a convenient eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, had swooped on Naples and inflicted yet more damage on the remaining Italian cruisers and battleships. Report was that the Italian Fleet had fled once more, to hole up somewhere else...