Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldier's son saw service on a British cruiser, served on an escort vessel in North Atlantic convoy early in World War I, stayed on while the Canadian Navy went back to a peacetime starvation basis...
...Ones. As Percy Nelles set off for London, Ottawa announced that the Royal Canadian Navy would soon have more than destroyers and escort vessels. Canadian crews were going to man two cruisers and two escort aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy...
Battle & Retreat. Early in the week a U.S. Liberator bomber on ocean patrol had spotted the blockade runner. The ship must have been of immense value to the Germans; eleven destroyers put out from French bases to meet and escort it to port. The resultant fight involved a perfect cross-section of Allied operations: British warships and U.S., British, Canadian and Czechoslovak airmen. Aircraft dogged the incoming ship relentlessly; a Liberator manned by Czech airmen bombed it and left it sinking. By this time the German destroyers, some 200 miles to the east, had ventured too far. Next morning they...
...engagement with superior heavy English naval units the battleship Scharnhorst, firing until her last round of ammunition was spent, sank after a heroic battle. . . . Considerable damage was inflicted on the convoy and the English escort units...
Next morning the huntress was near her best stalking ground. That afternoon she made her strike and closed, somewhere above the Nordkapp (North Cape), on the uppermost tip of Norway. But she found a battle, not a slaughter. The convoy she fell in with was under escort of strong forces of the British Home Fleet. Then began a long, furious, desperate running fight, as the hostile ships turned and maneuvered, while big guns thundered and baleful orange flashes cut through the grey atmosphere. Darkness brought no respite; the killers closed in; some hours later the proud Scharnhorst took her death...