Word: convoying
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...cars turned off. Soon they overtook a lorry convoy, which had halted to remove some anti-tank blocks. The staff cars made their way to the convoy head to investigate...
...more Germans came up on motorcycles, proceeded to the convoy head, covered the staff cars with half a dozen tommy-guns before the officers realized anything was happening...
...this point a lone Nazi on a motorcycle appeared at the convoy's rear. An armed guard stuck his head out from the rear lorry's tarpaulin and said: "What in hell do you want?" The Nazi tommy-gunned him. Another guard shot the Nazi...
After choosing W. Milbank Pillsbury '42 president in their annual spring elections last evening, the American Student Defense League, Harvard Chapter, passed a motion favoring American convoy of ships to Britain...
Malaya's men were willing to talk. They had fought the Jutland veteran as Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville's flagship in the Mediterranean fleet's spectacular show at Genoa on Feb. 9. Malaya, a sister of Queen Elizabeth, had lately been on convoy duty in the Atlantic. A 20-ft. gash in her port side, they told a Herald Tribune reporter, was the mark of a German torpedo in a submarine attack, the night of March 20. With her convoy of 20 merchant vessels apparently on a safe getaway, repairs-reporters guessed#151;under the provisions...