Word: convoying
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While the bombers continued to blast away, an Allied convoy of 25 cargo ships and ten large landing barges, escorted by U.S. battleships, cruisers, destroyers and an aircraft carrier, was reported by the Axis to have streamed past Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean. This was the second Allied convoy to enter the Mediterranean last week. The first fought off a night & day attack by Axis bombers and reached port without loss or damage...
...convoy. John Hersey, TIME correspondent aboard a destroyer, told how the situation was handled...
Rome and Berlin radio broadcasters last week worked overtime giving news of Allied preparations in the Middle East for a drive toward southeastern Europe. Germany reported that Allied troops were massing in Syria. Italy reported at least one large convoy en route through the eastern Mediterranean to the Middle East. Berlin reported an order of the day by Iraq's Premier General Nuri Pasha es-Said to his troops saying that active service was approaching. Warned the Rome radio: "Large British forces are concentrating along the southern frontier of Turkey...
...official British account of two simultaneous convoy actions in May told how aircraft escort carriers, land-based airplanes, and surface vessels are cooperating to beat the U-boats...
...separate action with another convoy, the British destroyer Hesperus in two days attacked three U-boats, probably destroyed at least...