Word: convoying
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...clock on Sunday morning two British cruisers and two destroyers, steaming in darkness off the sole of Italy's boot, met what they were looking for. That afternoon a Maryland (Glenn Martin) reconnaissance plane had spotted an Italian convoy of eight ships with an escort of destroyers leaving Taranto bound for Libya...
From there the Reuben James picked up a convoy and worked up toward where it was chilly. Walter Sorensen did not know where she was bound: some of the guys said probably Russia; others said no, just Iceland again...
...Kearny was on escort duty, westbound. She received a signal to leave her convoy and go to the assistance of another convoy, which was being attacked by U-boats. They reached the convoy late in the afternoon. The attack had apparently ceased...
...scattered convoy reformed and sailed into what Ensign Lyman called "as black a night as I've ever seen." Out of the blackness came a second submarine assault...
...them off. The submarines were probably on the surface with their decks awash and their engines cut, so we couldn't hear them. One tanker was afire and sinking. A corvette was trying to pick up survivors. Somehow a U-boat had maneuvered between the Kearny and the convoy. She went after...