Word: convoying
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...afternoon fifteen hundred gathered for the funeral. There was room for only 250 inside the mortuary. Mrs. Willkie sat beside her son, Philip, a Navy lieutenant rushed back from convoy duty in the Atlantic for his father's funeral. Loud speakers were set up outside, and people stood on the lawn in the thin autumn sun shine. Three small boys sat on the mortuary steps self-consciously, hats held care fully in their laps; their elders greeted each other with the formality peculiar to small towns on grave occasions...
West along the Coast. Kenney's combat airmen grew at their jobs. Their greatest victory was the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, where they sank every one of 2 2 ships in a Jap convoy headed south to reinforce the dug-in forces in the bitter fighting around Buna and Gona. In this technique Douglas MacArthur recognized one of the oldest principles of war-isolation of the battlefield-achieved with war's newest weapon. It was final proof that if he could control the sea north of New Guinea with air power and the help...
Pleasantries at Sea. The Nashville, bearing MacArthur, drew into the convoy on A-minus-three. Kinkaid blinkered: "Welcome to our city." Unusually exuberant, MacArthur blinkered back: "Glad to be in your domicile and under your flag. We're nearly there." Until they were there, and established ashore, Kinkaid would be "over" MacArthur...
...rendezvous had been made 450 miles from the Leyte beaches. From then on, the convoy advanced as a unit, so vast it spread over hundreds of miles of the Philippine Sea. On the night of A-minus-one, the weather man announced the departure of the baby typhoon; dawn would be clear, almost perfect weather...
...hinted that new shark fleets may have fresh tactics and technical equipment aimed to offset the deadly Allied location devices and methods which ruined the U-boats in 1942-43. But the sub commanders are more "shy, cautious and nervous" than they used to be. The "largest ocean supply convoy of all time" -167 ships spread over 26 square miles of seaway and carrying 1,000,000 tons of cargo-recently arrived in Britain without meeting a single U-boat attack on the way. Like most Atlantic convoys these days, this one was protected by an all-Canadian escort...