Word: convoying
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...stubborn Russian troops in the fortress of Sevastopol, a convoy ran in supplies across the Black Sea. Meanwhile, in rear areas, tank engines were tuned, fuel moved forward, every day the sun shone brighter. And every day Russians and Germans, like swimmers fighting in a millrace, were swept closer to the battle that may decide the fate of Europe...
...convoy was two days out of Alexandria, with supplies for unconquered Malta. So far the only enemy had been the choppy Mediterranean waves, making life miserable for the correspondents on one of Rear Admiral Philip L. Vian's light cruisers. Then, at dusk of the second day, birds of death appeared in the sky. Five swastikaed transport planes and a Messerschmitt flew overhead, winging from the Libyan front to German bases in Crete. They had sighted the convoy, and the British knew that the next dawn would bring enemy planes and warships...
Four torpedo planes came first. Heavy fire and Italian caution kept the planes well away, too high and too far for good aiming. Then came bombers, some high and some diving on the five light cruisers, the destroyers and the supply ships in the British convoy. Unscathed, the convoy pushed on toward Malta...
...components: 34 uniformed newsmen and photographers who arrived with a big convoy of U.S. troops, plus such veterans of the Battles of Java and Singapore as A.P.'s C. Yates McDaniel, U.P.'s Harold Guard, the Chicago Daily News's much machine-gunned George Weller-a total of over two dozen correspondents, photographers, broadcasters, newsreelmen...
...waited weeks in Washington for credentials, were forbidden to send stories until USAFA headquarters, several hundred miles away, re-accredited them. First they were scooped on the news of the arrival of U.S. troops in Australia when the Chicago Sun's Edward Angly, who arrived on an earlier convoy, went to a neighboring town and filed a dispatch which the censor let slip past...