Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maritime Commission gave a contract to Henry J. Kaiser, who had never built anything more elaborate than a Liberty ship, and the Navy was told to keep hands off. While the Navy glowered and went on building its own escort carriers, the new 480-ft., 4,000-ton babies of the Casablanca class began rolling off the Kaiser assembly lines...
What happens when six real Marines take Woodrow in hand and forcibly escort him home, his ill-fitting uniform bristling with extemporaneous decorations, is the stuff which makes Hail the Conquering Hero one of the year's most ingratiating pictures. When grateful townspeople solemnly burn the mortgage on the old Truesmith homestead and make plans to erect a suitable monument in the town square, Woodrow's misery seems to have reached its bearable limit. But it touches new depths when, in one of the most uproarious political campaigns in cinema history, the desperately reluctant Woodrow is nominated...
Carriers stood off the Bonins to send off aircraft which swooped upon the big, heavily escorted convoy. They sank four cargo ships, three naval escort craft, four barges. Then, for the first time in the new island campaign, U.S. surface ships closed in for the kill with their guns. They sank a large destroyer, a cargo ship, other miscellaneous items of Oikawa's auxiliary navy...
Then the airmen struck again, sank one more escort vessel, two small craft, and fired a light cruiser, which they left burning satisfactorily. U.S. losses: 16 planes, 19 airmen...
Scheduled to go home on August 1, hawk-faced Colonel Gabreski went on working as an extra-duty volunteer on his old job-bomber-escort, strafing missions, other fighter pilot's miscellany...