Word: convoying
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Other branches of the war effort were being manned by undergraduates taking some sort of training, whether for Air Raid Warden or for the motor transport divisions, where convoy driving and messenger work is taught...
...Navy would have another, even more pressing demand to meet: for warships to convoy aircraft reinforcements before it was too late. Immediate delivery of 1,000 fighters (at least some of the bombers could be delivered by air) with 15,000 men (pilots, air crews and ground crews) would take perhaps 100 freighters of average tonnage, and all would have to be shielded from submarine and air attack...
...they crossed the Causeway that night they did not know that help had already reached them, that a convoy of troops and planes and guns, miraculously shielded by a sudden storm from 60 attacking Japanese planes, had safely made port at Singapore...
Heavy Axis bombings had for seven weeks been used in an attempt to make the sea lanes safe for reinforcements for Rommel. Last week the British spotted and went out with bombers and torpedo planes to meet a big Axis convoy led by a battleship, four cruisers, 15 destroyers. They claimed the probable sinking of a 20,000-ton liner, damage to one of three supply ships...
...Crete, and afterwards in a huge convoy fleeing from Crete to Egypt, St. John learned that there had never been 300,000 British troops in Greece, but only...