OLD DESTROYERS
MANY RECOMMISSIONED IN U.S.A. FIFTY COULD GO TO BRITAIN IN A WEEK. IF CONGRESS SO DECIDED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! (Received This Day. 1.0 p.m.) NEW YORK. August 20. The Associated Press of America’s Washington correspondent says a naval authority stated that fifty United States destroyers could- go to England within a week, should Congress accede to Mr Churchill’s request. Over 100 of the 123 over-aged destroyers have been recommissioned and need only fuel and ammunition supplies. All are armed with four-inch guns and twenty-one-inch torpedo tubes, similar to the British.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1940, Page 6
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