Word: convoying
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...Canada has built and put in operation some 500 warships, most of them escort craft which are doing nearly half the Atlantic convoy work...
...about 8 o'clock the group left Phillips Brooks House in a convoy of about 15 army trucks for the Induction Center. Several army officers were present and stood at attention as the men left...
Only answer to the problem is escort ships-small subchasers (PC boats) in coastal work; fast-stepping, death-dealing destroyers and newly designed, highly efficient destroyer escorts (DEs), U.S. counterpart for Britain's corvettes, in transatlantic convoy. But the program as a whole is late. The destroyer-escort situation is worst, since only a handful have been delivered. As a result a single destroyer often convoys 15 hapless merchantmen across the Atlantic v. the ideal setup, which would be closer to one escort for every three freighters...
Germany's total sub fleet probably numbers 400, enabling her to keep 100 or more at sea all the time. The last announced convoy to land in Britain had to fight off 35 separate attacks. Until the United Nations knock out or otherwise neutralize that sub fleet, victory on land in this global war will be incalculably remote. The tide did not turn in World War I until Germany's U-boats were beaten and the ocean supply lines cleared. The ocean supply lines are even more vital to victory in World...
...ceded provinces-Nord and Pas-de-Calais-fortifications were being built and the last French inhabitants evacuated. Five destroyers, two tugs and many French merchantmen were being taken over by German crews to carry and convoy supplies to German forces in Tunisia. A 140-man German mission arrived in Paris to inventory French industry and arrange to increase poverty-stricken France's already big exports to Germany...