Word: convoying
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...convoy hurried to the Middle East the hard way-straight through the Mediterranean. This was apparently the first load of equipment for Russia. Its passage was marked by the usual flurry of Italian air attacks on the convoy itself, by an unusual flurry of British air attacks on Italian and Sicilian cities-an apparent effort to divert the Italian Air Force from attacking the convoy...
ROME--Italians claimed today that their warships and airplanes land smashed a convoy of American-made war materials in the Mediterranean, sinking or damaging seven British warships, possible including the giant battle ship Nelson, and four merchant ships in a nine-hour battle...
Usually the Nazi-submarines lay in wait below Freetown to catch single ships before they could be made up into large, heavily defended convoys. For attacks on convoys the Nazis developed a shrewd tactic. A fleet of six submarines lay submerged on a convoy lane, their engines off. When the prey appeared, one of the submarines started its engines and drew away, pulling the escorting warships, following their listening devices, after it. Then the five silent submarines got into action together...
...while convoys left Freetown regularly on certain days. On those days Vichy planes circled over, flew back to Dakar to report to the Germans. When the convoy days were changed, the Vichy planes still came over. Baffled British officers suspected disloyal natives of relaying the news to Dakar by drumbeats. Last week Vichy was rushing harbor improvements at Abidjan, 800 miles southeast of Freetown...
...hours newsmen drove down convoy-jammed highways, slithered over muddy, narrow back roads. They slept in damp fields and sometimes were lucky to get two hours' sleep a night. For days they got no baths. They ate canned rations, or sometimes they did not eat for 24 hours at a time. In short they went through much the same thing as the troops...