Word: cargoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs were as badly off. Since the landings in Lingayen Gulf began, not one of their surface ships had appeared to dispute Allied control of the sea lanes. Instead, their own cargo carriers and escort craft were being bombed and strafed from Indo-China to the Ryukyus. Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet carriers (16, by enemy count) sent planes up & down the coast and the island chain. They hammered Hong Kong, Swatow, Amoy and Canton in China; Takao on Formosa; Okinawa in the Ryukyus. Primarily, their job was to keep the Japs from flying planes or shipping...
...Surplus bombers, which the British feared would be used by the U.S. to dominate world air-cargo routes, are already being turned down by airlines as too expensive to convert and operate...
Navy headquarters stopped chuckling long enough to release the story last week. The corvette Mayflower, called "Daisy Mae"* by her men, left Halifax early in the war to herd 75 cargo ships across the Atlantic. Her only weapons: eight depth charges, six rifles, one Tommy gun, one Lewis gun, three revolvers. But the "Daisy Mae" also had plenty of nerve...
...tough enough to be flying a cargo of explosives over the Hump from India; it was worse than that when one of the depth charges in the cargo started to buzz. Pilot J. E. Zerbe radioed his home base for instructions. Base replied soothingly: ''Nothing to worry about-depth charge...
Finally Commander Robertson decided to move the ship. Harbor Pilot Brackett, ignoring danger, went aboard. While the flames licked closer to the million-dollar cargo, he guided the Volunteer down the harbor, finally beached her on McNab Island. There seacocks were opened to flood the holds. The ship was saved...