[Homer_J_Simpson]

Calls Heard Here – 2
The International Situation – 3
Italians Fall Back – 3-5
Greek Crossed Lines to Obtain War Data – 4
Canadians May Yet Fight on Mediterranean Front – 4
Greeks Hold Foe in Mountain Trap, but Terrain Makes the Gains Slow – 6
Germans Pounding at English Cities – 6-7
Finnish Reindeer Meat is Imported by Germany – 7
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 8-9

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/dec40/f03dec40.htm

British order American ships

Tuesday, December 3, 1940 www.onwar.com

In London... The British government announces that it has placed a first order with US yards for the construction of 60 merchant ships.

[BroJoeK]

"Calls Heard Here – 2"

Note Churchill's report that U-boat sinkings had caused a one-third reduction in Britain's imports of critical materials.

Somewhere I think I've read the estimate that if imports had been cut by half, Britain could not have sustained itself.

So at this point, Hitler was closer than he knew to bringing Britain to it's knees.