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With U-boats sinking dozens of ships each month, Hemingway, Bogart, and other citizens tried to help patrol American waters.

Editor's note: Timothy M. Gay is the Pulitzer-nominated author of two books on WWII. His first article on the U.S.

No American ships were involved, yet on its outcome hung Great Britain’s recognition of our independence

Nowadays tourists visit the West Indies by air, and sooner or later most of them avail themselves of one or other of the local services that, originating in Puerto Rico, hop from island to island southeastward along the chain of the Lesser Antilles to Trinidad and Georgetown, on the coast of Brit

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