Word: convoying
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From the U.S. and Great Britain, Russia still has a North Atlantic route to Archangel. But this is not enough; it imposes heavy convoy burdens, and Archangel is weather-shut most of the winter...
Frederic de Hoffman '45, a refugee from Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakis, a veteran of London's worst bombing raids, and the only civilian, aboard a small Greek freighter in a British convoy, has been giving a series of broadcasts over the Crimson network on European affairs...
After waiting two years for a United States visa, de Hoffman sailed on a small freighter in the middle of a British convoy. "When attacked for the first time," he related, "we were some 300 miles off the coast of Western Ireland on a fairly clear night...
Though momentarily expecting to be hit themselves, the freighter was not touched and despite several more attacks, the convoy arrived in Norfolk...
...Allied observers, certain that Rommel would make another push, it seemed that much the same reasons might account for further Axis successes. From the tempo of British air and sea attacks on Tripoli and the Mediterranean convoy route, it was obvious that Rommel was taking good care to supply himself well before he advanced again...