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WASHINGTON--Eight Jap destroyers trying to blast their way through the American blockade with reinforcements and supplies for the starving enemy garrison on Guadalcanal were attacked by U.S. motor torpedo boats which hit one vessel and scored three possible hits on two others, the Navy said today...
...ships had been sunk in the western and south Atlantic by Axis submarines; from Oct. 1 to Dec. 20 only 65 more. This notable success in the Battle of the Atlantic was not gained in any single thrilling action. The following account of the labors of a U.S. convoy vessel (given with a fictitious name) tells something of how that success has been...
...average of under 40 days in his Portland yards, as against an average for the industry of about 56 days. It allowed him to build more cargo ships in his Portland yards in one year than Hog Island built in four. It allowed him to launch one vessel in four days, 15 hours, and another which, 51 days after keel-laying, turned up with cargo in Australia. From the Kaiser empire, sprawling from Seattle to Portland to Los Angeles, came one out of every three Libertys built. And though the U.S. built only a fraction of the ships it needs...
...Indian Ocean one of them was intercepted recently by Allied naval forces. At first the 8,000-ton cargo ship hoisted a neutral flag, gave the name of a neutral vessel, but in misspelling the name tipped its game. When Allied warships opened fire the crew scuttled the ship. Seventy-eight Germans were captured. From them it was learned that the ship, en route from Japan to Germany with a valuable cargo, was a blockade runner...
...hauled U.S. citizens out of Yokohama and other Oriental hot spots. Before her death in the service of her country, announced last week, the U.S. Army transport President Coolidge had probably carried more tens of thousands of soldiers to Pacific ports than any other vessel. The Navy announced only that she had hit a mine and sunk. Since there were only four casualties out of 4,000 troops aboard, it seemed likely that the Coolidge had struck a mine near a friendly shore...