No Trafalgar, No Jutland

The U.S. Navy won its first sea victory of World War II late in September, but the announcement was not made until last week. No Jutland or Trafalgar was this engagement: a U.S. warship patrolling Greenland waters to protect the huge Navy and Army air bases now nearing completion at Newfoundland, captured a 60-ton Norwegian steamer. Aboard was a crew of 20, including an agent of the German Gestapo. Their mission: to establish radio stations on the fjord-fissured, thousand-harbored Greenland Coast, keep Germany advised of the most vital of all information in the Battle of the Atlantic, the weather. One of the stations was found and destroyed, its three-man crew captured.

This week, as the search went on for other Nazi radio stations in Greenland, the Norwegian freighter, identified as the Busko, was escorted into Boston Harbor.

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