La historia y los detalles tecnicos de la flota de combate de los Estados Unidos, segun se ha compilado de fuentes oficiales. [The history and technical details of the U.S. battle fleet, as compiled from official sources.]
Let’s be comfortable, folks. This warmer clothes talk is the bunk. There’s plenty of fuel. Somebody’s just trying to save some money. Besides, if you burn more fuel, there wont be so much for the Navy and the transports going to Africa and to the Solomons and that will mean less fighting, and you know we all hate war! Yours for more heat and less fighting. Adolph
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Oh, yeah, Adolph. You can’t lick us that way. The oil and coal are hauling some stuff over to Africa, where you don’t want it. But we can keep warm with less fuel than we had last winter. We’re doing it at home, and we can do it here--warmer clothing is the answer--every day. That includes keeping feet warm and dry on the way to work, with rubbers, overshoes, and warm woolen socks.
"When last seen he was collecting Bren and Tommy Guns and preparing a defensive position which successfully covered the withdrawal from the beach."--Excerpt from citation awarding Victoria Cross to Lt. Col. Merritt, South Saskatchewan Regt., Dieppe, Aug. 19, 1942.
Pictured in the photograph is an important unit of "Navy Ships behind the Scenes"--a destroyer tender with part of her flotilla lying alongside for their routine check-up and repairs. To most Americans the United States Navy is symbolized by the swift-cruising dreadnaughts--the ships of the line. But behind this fighting front in equally active operation is the fleet of auxiliaries and inshore craft, smaller in size, but no less vital to the protection of America's double coastline. The sketches illustrate the types of ships of this auxiliary fleet. These auxiliaries furnish the combatant ships with replacement parts, supply them with food, ammunition, and fuel, provide surgical and hospital attention, keep men and ships in fighting trim, and link the inshore to the coastal patrol. They are all vital to America's defense of the waters which encircle her shores. Your Navy Recruiting Station can tell you about the advantages you will derive from service aboard these or any ships of the United States Navy.
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