Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt and an armed escort drove to Berchtesgaden to visit Hitler...
...Unseen Players. The Japs ran into heroic but weak defense. Their heavy-gunned battleships closed on the U.S. escort carriers, which launched their planes, then gallantly fought with 5-inch guns while they ran a losing race to the south. The two destroyers and the destroyer escort piled in after the manner of their kind, launched torpedoes, got some hits, were sunk. But by this time part of Halsey's force had wheeled away from the northern battle and was tearing south again. Would it be in time to save the Leyte shipping from disaster...
...light carrier (Princeton), two escort carriers (St. Lo and Gambier Bay), two destroyers (Johnston and Hoel) and one destroyer escort (Samuel B. Roberts...
...such short hauls each B-29 could carry perhaps ten tons of bombs, an unheard-of load for any bomber in the vast Pacific theater. All the B-29s returned, but three P-47s of the escort -the first the Superfortresses ever had-were lost to heavy antiaircraft fire at the target: Rangoon's railway yards...
Henry Agard Wallace, in Manhattan last week to wind up his speaking campaign for Roosevelt and Truman (see U.S. AT WAR), did some running himself. His two-man police escort left him in their car for a few minutes, returned to find him gone. They spotted him running down the street, gave chase. After two and a half blocks a pedestrian, thinking the Vice President a fugitive, grabbed him. The police guard was doubled, but Wallace soon started running again, easily beat his four frantic, panting guards on a five-block race down crowded Broadway to the Hotel Astor. Explained...