Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twelve battleships-as many as the entire 1940 U.S. Pacific fleet had-plus cruisers and 80 destroyers as escort (according to German reports...
...range of self-imposed duties, mostly of an escort character. If a blue jacket grew tipsy, Nuisance would grasp his sleeve, guide him understandingly to ward a haven. He regularly rode the interurban between the naval barracks at Simon's Town and the nearby port of Capetown. The railroad long ago gave up trying to collect his fare...
Presently the Supreme Commander, full and beaming, swigged the last drop of coffee and pushed back his half-eaten meal. He had broken his own rule. A tactful escort murmured about the mess regulation on food economy, which is enforced by slips inscribed: "Eat all you take on your plate or explain by endorsement here...
...auto solidifies in prestige, pomp and circumstance seep into the drawings (not to mention the ad copy). But there is an image of 1912 evening pleasure, with its silky escort, its four moth-white, moth-soft ladies enwombed in the felicities of a cross-sectioned Waverly Electric, in a rain-dim street, which catches a sort of elegant U.S. ecstasy that few conscious artists have caught...
...Allied aircraft no German target was now out of reach. Even fighter planes (P-51 Mustangs) ranged as far as western Poland on bomber escort duty and earned special congratulations from Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, commander of all U.S. strategic bombing forces in Europe. The German defensive air force was obviously weakened in numbers, if not in fighting quality. Relentless air pounding along the French invasion coast had created an almost deserted zone, 50 miles deep...