Word: convoying
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Last week the Navy released these new details of the worst convoy disaster in U.S. history. On that night, last February, more than 850 U.S. soldiers and sailors died in the North Atlantic when two merchantmen went down. Said Ship's Cook George Dunningham: "There were a lot of men yelling and blowing whistles. Many of them were in the water, and each had his red rescue light lit. It looked like a weird, strange dream...
...young officers arriving frustrated in Australia from the Battle of Java had the same idea in cruder form (fired by their first drinks in weeks). Hearing that a convoy was unloading at the Melbourne docks, they called for volunteers. Object: to throw the typewriters on the ships overboard before they could be landed. Luckily for them, but perhaps unluckily for fighting proficiency, they got no volunteers...
...Milne Bay on New Guinea, and against the docks and ground installations at Port Moresby. Allied forces claimed they had shot down 121 planes in these four raids, but the raiders too did some damage. Allied planes also sank two ships out of a convoy of nine which probably succeeded in putting supplies ashore at Wewak...
...Japanese planes had attacked a convoy approaching or standing off Guadalcanal. They had sunk a destroyer, a New Zealand corvette, a tanker, damaged a "fuel-oil boat." The U.S. victory had lasted one day. The Navy Department and the news-hungry press could have afforded to wait for the whole story in one accurate installment...
Light U.S. forces engaged the convoy, which skittishly turned and fled. It was a safe bet that during the next heavy fog the Japs would be back...