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...vessels, marshal them into convoys, hold the fast ones down to the pace of the slow, expose them to damage, load and unload them in bombed ports, reroute them may reduce the efficiency of an already inadequate merchant marine by 50%. Most shipping between the U.S. and Malaya, for example, will now go around the Cape of Good Hope. That route is 4,360 miles farther from New York than the route across the Pacific from San Francisco...
...America. Open warfare adds to EDB's responsibilities. It corresponds to Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare, which directs bombing operations on the European continent. EDB experts must be able to tell Major General Brereton's Far Eastern squadrons which Japanese factories are most worth a load of bombs...
Into the individual tales of the team's Seniors of whom "eight members started the Yale game in their Sophomore year, and for three years they carried the football load for their University," Harlow delves with detail and humor...
...could see his squadrons' bombs falling, some near the ship, some a good distance away. One loaded plane hitting its deck would have infinitely more effect. Might sink the thing; certainly would make for a bit of confusion down there. He saw one bomb hit the foredeck; he couldn't tell, but it seemed to have caused a good deal of wreckage. Now if a whole plane-load...
...this campaign for months. Head-tohead were the A.A.R.'s Military Transportation Section and the Quartermaster General's men. At first the Army debonairly planned to give all its men the regulation ten-day leave, starting Dec. 21. The railroad men shuddered. They anticipated the greatest mail load on record, plus a December holiday civilian load of over two billion passenger-miles, and they did not want 800 million soldier-miles dumped on top of that all at once. They persuaded the QMC to stagger its leaves: men who live near camp can leave...