An indication was seen today that the toll of merchant shipping lost in the Western Atlantic submarine warfare is decreasing in that no announcements of new sinkings had been made for 24 hours.
The unofficial total of ships lost to Axis submarines and mines since mid-January was 418, most of them United Nations vessels.
I read somewhere that the magnetic contact fuse was never tested live on a real ship. What a colossal blunder, and the U-boat commanders was not believed for a long time when they told they were faulty.
Des Moines, Iowa (UP) –
Members of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps are forgetting the feminine figures they watched so closely in civilian life and eating like Iowa farm hands.
Strenuous Army life has whetted the WAACs appetites so much that perplexed mess sergeants, who worked diligently at first to prepare “ladies mess,” are now padding the bill of fare with items from the men’s mess.
United Press executive, prisoner of Japs 6 months, presents first eyewitness accounts of Tokyo raid; says bombs killed 600 war workers By Robert T. Bellaire