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...Army operated anti-U-boat groups was the Navy's lack of extremely long-range air craft suitable for low level attack bombing required in anti-submarine tactics. To the Army went all the Liberators being delivered - and to the Army went the task of long-range patrols beyond the reach of the Navy's patrol planes. When we began to receive the needed bombers we took over...
...Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism . . . during an aggressive and successful submarine war patrol in the immediate vicinity of enemy Japanese coast line." He won the Silver Star Medal for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action." But last week the Navy said the Pompano, long overdue from her last patrol, must be presumed missing-iyth U.S. submarine reported lost. Tommy Thomas' record, still bright, had ended...
Battle & Retreat. Early in the week a U.S. Liberator bomber on ocean patrol had spotted the blockade runner. The ship must have been of immense value to the Germans; eleven destroyers put out from French bases to meet and escort it to port. The resultant fight involved a perfect cross-section of Allied operations: British warships and U.S., British, Canadian and Czechoslovak airmen. Aircraft dogged the incoming ship relentlessly; a Liberator manned by Czech airmen bombed it and left it sinking. By this time the German destroyers, some 200 miles to the east, had ventured too far. Next morning they...
...specific competitions. The Government is emphatically pro-sport. (The Red Army discovered that its average draftee in 1939 was an inch taller and five pounds heavier than in 1932, and attributes some of the improvement to mass sport movements.) Ski championships at Sverdlovsk this winter will stress military patrol competition. January's sports carnival for youngsters has events in shooting and grenade throwing...
...Washington Heights's Inspector Joseph Bannon: "The situation is much exaggerated. Things are very calm and collected in Washington Heights." Said Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine: "AntiSemitism is always a problem in a large, heterogeneous city such as New York." But he ordered an increase in mobile detective patrol in the affected areas...