Word: bismarck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convoys moved south through the Bismarck Sea. Allied planes, scouting and bombing as far as the Dutch East Indies and Portuguese Timor, saw disquieting signs" of Jap activity. Both General Douglas MacArthur and Prime Minister Curtin of Australia understood that the smashing U.S. victory in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (TIME, March 15) had not guaranteed the security of Australia and the Allied positions in New Guinea...
...convoy plowed westward deep into the Bismarck Sea before Kenney struck. High above the convoy, Fortresses first laid a closely woven pattern of bombs. A 6,000-ton Jap cargo ship broke in half. A 10,000-tonner, hit five times, went up in flames. Another cargo ship caught fire. Twice again that day, Fortresses and Liberators returned to the attack, shot down five defending Zeros...
More than a clean sweep for the United Nations, the Bismarck Battle was a clear-cut victory of land-based planes, carefully coordinated, over a concentration of ships and their escorting aircraft. Bombers operating at all angles and altitudes had shown new accuracy. But heavy and medium bombers, coming in low, had dealt the deathblows. U.S. airmen's bumbling failure to halt or even hit a similar Jap convoy bound for New Guinea last July had been retrieved...
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA-- The Bismarck Sea ran red with Japanese blood tonight and the wreckage of Japanese ships and planes were strewn from New Britain to the coast of New Guinea as Allied bombers completed wiping out a 22-ship convey in the most decisive beating ever given the Japanese at sea in this theatre of operations...
Submarines and convettes guarded the first legs of the convey's to Iceland, through the Denmark Straits where the Bismarck went down, and out from Iceland toward northern England. There the convey split into two parts, for England and Russia, with most of the escorting vessels accompanying the England-bound section...