POTENT STRIKING FORCE
BRITISH EASTERN FLEET NEW YORK, November 1. "The British Eastern Fleet, long depleted by the need for ships •in the Mediterranean and other European waters, is now being built up as a potent striking force to participate in the final blows against the- Japanese," declared Admiral Sir James Somerville upon arrival as the new head of the British Admiralty delegation. Admiral Somerv.ille, who commanded the Eastern Fleet for two years and a-half, told the Press that he did not iknow whether it would be integrated into an American sea force in a big push against Japan or whether it [would be assigned independent operations further south.
" However," Admiral Somerville said, "the British feel very strongly that they should take'part in. the party that finally knocks out the Japanese in Japan."
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Evening Star, Issue 25323, 3 November 1944, Page 3
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