Word: convoying
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...dusk they maneuvered into the middle of a coastwise convoy of six cargo ships and three small naval vessels. Away went the sub's torpedoes and down went two Jap merchantmen. Klakring let his crew take a look through the periscope at "this very pretty sight." When the other Jap ships, panic-stricken, turned and raced for the shore, Klakring surfaced and gave chase. He dogged one ship into a cove and plumped a torpedo into her middle. It was a lucky hit at long range. But, said Klakring, a soft-spoken Marylander, "If I had missed...
After a month of Russian black-bread, a kind of Juniper tea, and English Spillers' Biscuits, Haskell got a berth on a ship in a convoy bound for home. He reached port on August...
Britain's First Army carried the attack. First the U.S. forces had moved into Algeria and French Morocco with the help of the R.A.F. and Royal Navy. During the initial landings the First Army remained offshore in a vast convoy, landed near the Tunisian border only when U.S. forces had secured the rear in Algeria and had solved the first, delicate problems of relations with the French...
...were staggered by the Eighth Army's size, power, organization and mobility. Roaring and rumbling bumper-to-bumper for miles on end were convoy after convoy of tanks, armored cars, Bren-gun carriers, lorries full of troops, petrol, food and ammunition, motorcycles, staff cars and ambulances, red-faced tankmen in black berets, Indians, Scots, Tommies, New Zealanders, Australians and Americans. all directed with incredible precision...
...armada of protecting planes, which neither saw nor was seen by the convoys, ran interference for the ships. The planes flew from Britain over the Bay of Biscay for 8,000 flying hours, pounced on subs that left bases in Occupied France to intercept the convoy. Said the British account: "Our bombers only thought they were out on the biggest U-boat hunt of the war. They had no idea that just west across the Bay our convoy was slipping through to Africa." As the convoy neared Africa, bombers from Gibraltar made an umbrella for the landings. Fifty submarines menaced...