World War, SUPPLY: HITLER MISSED THE TANKER

Hitler Missed the Tanker?

Into narrow twisting Vladivostok one day last week slid the bulk of the U.S. oil tanker, L. P. St. Clair. To battling Russia she brought barrels of high octane gasoline. Next day the Associated was berthed beside her with 95,000 barrels more. Early this week another arrived. And strung like a chain across the Pacific still more tankers wallowed along from the U.S. to Russia, right between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. If not actively fighting Fascism, the U.S. was helping to fuel the fight against it.

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