Word: convoying
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...British fighter planes, from a carrier protecting an Atlantic convoy, shot down an unarmed (cargo-carrying) American C-54 transport, mistaking it for a Focke-Wulf 200. Lost: a civilian crew...
Greta Garbo, three years after her last movie Two Faced Woman, signed for a part in a film about the convoy-valiant Norwegian Merchant Marine. She took the otherwise undescribed role at the urging of Norwegian Ambassador to the U.S. Wilhelm Morgenstierne...
...damaged"), an average of 4½ Jap ships for each of the 113 submarines that the U.S. had at the time of Pearl Harbor. As more U.S. submarines bore through to the Pacific, no Jap ship is safe from undersea attack, in harbor or at sea, alone or in convoy, near home or at the fringes of Japan's empire...
...Bismarck Sea may not be mine, but it is no longer his and he crosses it at his peril," said Douglas MacArthur a year ago. It had begun to be his a few days before when his Fifth Air Force swooped down on a warship-escorted convoy off New Guinea and sank it to the last ship...
...From a convoy of trucks carrying German prisoners of war to their quarters near by, crudely printed leaflets fluttered into the streets of Tishomingo, Okla. They proclaimed...