Word: convoying
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With these he set a trap, destroyed a big German convoy, drove on into Dijon, cleaned out the town. When French troops arrived next day, the captain, the sergeant, the Maquis and the U.S. tanks were occupying Burgundy's capital...
...Since early this summer it has provided the close escort for all convoys between North America and the United Kingdom, including the biggest convoy ever: 150 ships which recently delivered a million-ton cargo to England. At the same time R.C.N. ships made up 30% of the general support units roaming the North Atlantic. Canada's is a small-ship Navy, greater in numbers than in gunpower: 20 destroyers, 45 frigates, 100 corvettes, 60 minesweepers, Macdonald said, though he admitted that he was purposely understating the figures. Britain still holds title to the Canadian-crewed aircraft carriers Puncher...
Wrote the lieutenant: "Not so very long ago, I was aboard ship being convoyed into combat with the enemy. Because of the size of the convoy, and especially the size of my ship, there weren't enough chaplains to go around. We were among the more unfortunate vessels. At the end of the first week aboard ship my men began asking about church services, so I took it upon myself to conduct Sunday services. The response to these services was so tremendous that I attempted to conduct Holy Communion the night before we were to land on enemy-held...
...Oikawa. Before Oikawa, who self-consciously calls war an art, had time to prove his artistry, the U.S. Pacific Fleet had humiliated him even more than his predecessors had been. A fast carrier task force bored into the Bonin Islands-closer to Tokyo than ever before-destroyed a Jap convoy and plastered Empire military and naval works less than 600 miles from Imperial Headquarters...
Carriers stood off the Bonins to send off aircraft which swooped upon the big, heavily escorted convoy. They sank four cargo ships, three naval escort craft, four barges. Then, for the first time in the new island campaign, U.S. surface ships closed in for the kill with their guns. They sank a large destroyer, a cargo ship, other miscellaneous items of Oikawa's auxiliary navy...