Word: convoying
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Into San Francisco Bay, through the mists of a grey Christmas morning, steamed a somber little convoy. Aboard were women and children bombed out of their homes in Honolulu, boys and men of the Navy wounded and burned in Pearl Harbor before they ever had a chance to fight back...
From hillsides bordering the harbor, San Franciscans saw the convoy slide under Golden Gate Bridge, the ships' black and grey daubed sides barely distinguishable from fog and water. Word spread quickly. Down to the docks, as close as armed guards would let them approach, rushed hundreds of eager, worried men and women: parents whose sons had been in the battle of Pearl Harbor, relatives of families left stranded in Hawaii when the attack came. They stood in the chill drizzle, waiting...
...afternoon before Christmas, while the convoy zigzagged slowly toward harbor, the passengers got up a little party for the wounded men who were in good enough shape to care about such things. They improvised presents: cartons of cigarets, razor blades, tooth paste, socks, candy, ties, handkerchiefs, anything they could find. All afternoon they worked wrapping them, in fancy Christmas papers removed from packages they had done up, in happier days, for their own families...
...evening settles with the dust of battle, a huge supply convoy comes up, like a great merchant fleet. It forms in close laager-the unprotected vehicles at the core, a ring of armored cars and tanks on the watch outside...
Adolf Hitler's new plans hinged on France, which his armies smashed 17 months ago. According to Berne, he had proposed to Vichy a five-point program consisting of two demands and three concessions. Demands: i) the French Navy would undertake Mediterranean convoy duty "under key German officers"; 2) Germany would be allowed to transport troops and munitions across French North Africa...