Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME undertook to print all the true tales of U.S. heroism now being released for the first time, it could not do justice to the weekly news. All honor to the men of the Escort Carrier Guadalcanal, the Destroyer Escorts Chatelain, Pope, Pillsbury, Flaherty and Jenks, and to Composite Squadron 8, for their unique achievement...
...raged that the British had shown up only after he had "restored order," and he told a Syrian journalist: "You are replacing the easygoing French with the brutal British." Unimpressed, Syrians killed what stray Frenchmen and Senegalese they could find. After curfew, the humiliated French had to accept British escort to places of safety...
...road was foggy most of the way. In Newburgh, eleven miles north of West Point, they were stopped about 11:30 for speeding. Explaining, they got an escort instead of a ticket. After a final pause at the West Point gate, they rushed to the quarters of the waiting Adjutant. There on the doorstep Woody identified himself, raised his right hand, took the oath as a cadet of the United States Military Academy - just eight minutes before the dead line...
Bombing Japan from the Marianas, near their extreme round-trip range (3,600 miles), the Superfortresses now have a handy way station-Iwo Jima-on which to land when they are lamed in combat or too short of fuel to make it back to Guam, Saipan or Tinian. Fighter escort from Iwo has also helped to cut losses. Result: the Jap airfields on Kyushu have taken a persistent beating, and enemy fighter production has been cut 50%. In April, the B-295 unloaded 30,000 tons of bombs-as much as in the ten preceding months-but U.S. losses dropped...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., after guiding his destroyer escort through a two-hour hunt for a slippery Jap sub marine, wound up with a kill which Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey described as "one of the most efficiently conducted anti-submarine operations within my knowledge." The Admiral recommended Lieut. Commander Roosevelt for the Legion of Merit...