Word: escorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the three silver stars of a lieutenant general glittering on his shoulders, Eaker drove to Buckingham Palace, flanked by a young aide and an Air Ministry official. In an anteroom the escort stood aside while the General was ushered alone into His Majesty's study. Forty-five minutes later General Eaker emerged, possessor of one of Britain's highest military honors, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division). If Ira Eaker were a British subject he would have been invested as a knight, becoming Sir Ira; since he is as American...
...Ambassador Espil, 56, is sometimes called the "Mona Lisa of the Pam pas" for his thought-concealing smile. He first came to the U.S. in 1919 as first secretary to the Embassy, London-tailored, expert at the tango, an escort of Wallis Spencer years before she became the Duchess of Windsor. But Don Felipe was no mere tailor's dummy. He studied the U.S. and its economics. By 1931 he had become Ambassador, and in the next twelve years operated smoothly on friction-fraught issues...
...tank-car rights on her railroads. To interrupt the oil traffic, and to lure any nearby German naval units into a fight, the mighty British Home Fleet (battleships, cruisers, destroyers) last week sailed 800 miles into Arctic waters. The Home Fleet also made naval history: it served as an escort for an American aircraft carrier...
Williams, now flying a Grumman Avenger torpedo plane from an escort carrier in the Atlantic, was credited with the destruction of three U-boats, "possible damage" to a fourth. His squadron insignia: a Disney-designed Black Cat. He made one of his attacks on the 13th of the month...
Thunderbolt (Republic P-47). First fought in the European Theater only a few months ago on a large scale, the turbosupercharged P47 is a hard-hitting, high-altitude specialist. Heavy as the familiar Ford trimotor, it has been used almost exclusively as a long-range bomber escort (as at Emden). Bombers run into comparatively little trouble when P-475 are escorting. The P-475 themselves, against German fighters, knocked down 5.8 German aircraft to every P47 that was lost in one recent month. Its overall ratio, from a fairly unimpressive start...