Word: escorted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Construction in 1943 will concentrate on airplane carriers and destroyer escorts. This year's carriers will "multiply many times" the total carrier force in 1942; escorts to be built will equal the total escort force at the end of last year...
...escort ships, new aircraft carriers (see p. 65), new defensive techniques, new arms and devices, a new command system were among the Allied answers. But even the most optimistic Allied claims did not predict a turn of the tide before midsummer; other estimates were that the ebb would be later than that...
...work, as the taut indifference of the strip-builders indicated, was urgent. How urgent was further pointed up this week by a Navy announcement that U.S. naval vessels had intercepted two escorted cargo ships headed for the Aleutians. The two merchantmen were not particularly significant. Their escort was. It consisted of no less than four cruisers and four destroyers. Such an inordinately heavy shield suggested that the Japs wanted to be sure those ships got through...
...Navy announced that a series of conferences between U.S., British and Canadian officers had been taking place, and would continue, in Washington and London. The result would be a pooling of information and tactics which, the communique confidently asserted, would achieve "the best methods of employing the Allied escort vessels, anti-submarine craft and aircraft in defeating the U-boat menace...
...Allies were already building up their anti-submarine fleet with new vessels such as the U.S. Navy's 300-ft. Destroyer Escort. The conferees did not devise any quick or cheap "solution," but they set forth exactly what each nation could expect from the others, so that maximum use could be made of woefully minimum equipment. Presumably, they provided for coordination of the various local commands, so that tactics will become both uniform and effective...