Word: convoying
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...Life Begins at 40. The Barb's skipper, Lieut. Commander Eugene Fluckey, knew that a fat Jap convoy had holed up in Namkwan Harbor on the China coast opposite Formosa. Gene Fluckey and his crew "cased the joint." Going in, the Barb was going to have to take its chances with the enemy minefields; going out, Fluckey figured he would slither through an area marked "rocks" and "unexplored" on his chart. That way, the Barb would be an hour's run from safe diving depth, and it might make deep water if, as Fluckey hoped, the Jap escort...
...royal convoy, the frigate Surprise, carrying Princess Elizabeth, escorted by the frigate Magpie, commanded by the Duke of Edinburgh, put into Turko-Limano for a six-day unofficial visit to Greece and the duke's family...
Taking prisoners is a rare maneuver in aerial warfare. Last week in North Korea, however, an air force team turned the trick. Four U.S. fighter-bombers attacked a convoy of ten North Korean trucks moving along the road between Anju and Sukchon, knocking out eight of the trucks and leaving two intact. A Fifth Air Force C-47 transport equipped with a loudspeaker and an interpreter then took over, issuing orders in Korean from the air for the truck drivers to turn their vehicles around and drive south...
...minutes later, an observation plane spotted two more trucks and a column of 300 Communist soldiers on the road. These too were ordered to turn around and fall in. With the transport still issuing orders from on high and fighter-bombers circling overhead like airborne collies, the whole convoy of prisoners was marched sheeplike into United Nations headquarters near Sukchon...
...Bataan, followed by MacArthur's new C-54, named Scap, flew on Wednesday to Itazuke on Kyushu Island. There a motor vehicle convoy picked up the general's party and carried us 86 miles to the naval base at Sasebo...