Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although black-browed Tom Kinkaid had received divisions of escort carriers and at least five battleships to fill out the contours of his normally skinny fleet, the Japs knew he would be hard pressed to stave off this assault. To make doubly sure, their southernmost force would charge through Surigao Strait. Either or both of these forces would strive for a chance to pot sitting ducks - the helpless transports off Leyte...
...peril of the cotillion was that wallflowers could not be camouflaged. Says the daughter of Julia Ward Howe: "Today no woman will go to a ball without an escort. These moderns play safe. ... I must say I think we were rather more sporting in our attitude...
...convoy of all time" -167 ships spread over 26 square miles of seaway and carrying 1,000,000 tons of cargo-recently arrived in Britain without meeting a single U-boat attack on the way. Like most Atlantic convoys these days, this one was protected by an all-Canadian escort...
Their chief objectives were Miyako and Okinawa Islands, and the area was thick with bombers' targets. The planes sank an escort-type destroyer, four small submarines, 14 cargo ships, 25 smaller ships, 43 other vessels. Apparently the Mitscher-men had surprised the enemy: they destroyed 59 planes on the ground, shot 23 more...
...aircraft carriers, it matters not whether Japan has ten or a dozen, plus a dozen or a score of escort carriers; the U.S. alone has such vast superiority in seaborne air power that the chief problem is how to come to grips with the Japs. In cruisers and destroyers Japan is similarly outclassed...