Word: convoying
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...damage in London but shots taken aboard German naval vessels at sea off Norway, of German artillery firing across the Channel, of U-boats at sea, pictures of England taken from German air raiders (with bombs visible as they leave the plane), of a ship in a British convoy photographed from a Stuka diving straight down on it, of freight yards in occupied France torn up by British bombs, of French prisoners slaving at construction projects for the Germans, of French children getting rations from the conquerors, of Hitler gaily touring Paris, visiting the Madeleine, looking at the Eiffel Tower...
...Those bombs in Ireland are English or they are imaginary." Britain's motive for faking a Luftwaffe on Ireland would, of course, be in order to get her as an ally so that Britain could heavily fortify the country and use her naval bases for anti-submarine and convoy activity...
...British convoy ships had been able to cut total losses for the week ending Dec. 23 to 43,300 tons (worst week, Oct. 14-21: 146,528 tons). But the Admiralty had few ships to spare for countering the expanding eastern flank of the counter-blockade. Its Home Fleet was still chained to British Isles bases by invasion threats (see p. 24). Its Mediterranean Fleet was busy choking off supplies intended for Italy's armies in Libya and Albania...
...William Allen White, so-called interventionist-warmonger, chairman of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, mildly defined his aims: to aid England, but not to the extent of involving the U. S. in war, not to repeal the Johnson Act, not to convoy supplies to England. Shocked at this lukewarmth, several of his committee members immediately branded his words as a shameful retreat toward isolation. Major General John F. O'Ryan resigned from the committee. In effect, the interventionist committee seemed too isolationist...
Berwick v. Hipper. Somewhere in the North Atlantic on Christmas morning, the fast 10,000-ton British cruiser Berwick gave chase to a Nazi raider which attacked the Berwick's convoy with torpedo and shellfire. In stormy murk the enemy, which the British guessed by its speed to be a cruiser of the Admiral Hipper class, got away, but not without an 8-inch hit amidships from the Berwick. The latter also sustained damage (five casualties) but remained at sea. During the chase, the Berwick came upon the raider's supply ship, the freighter Baden, which set herself...