Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barents Sea, made five low-level bomb and torpedo attacks, sank four transports and three escort craft, damaged two other transports, peppered a patrol ship and an E-boat...
...radar set on a destroyer escort costs $28,750. Description of a new device called "loran" is still off-the-record...
...Several months ago death was decreed for Gestapo-man Franz Buerckl, Governor of Warsaw's Pawiak Prison. One day, as Buerckl walked the streets with wife and child, a Polish fiddler whipped a tommy gun from his violin case, shot Buerckl down, fought it out with his motorcycle escort...
...Saltonstall's style as governor is in keeping with the weathered plainness of his Yankee squire's face. He dispensed with the limousine and motorcycle escort his predecessors affected. Saltonstall is driven around in a two-door 1941 Chevrolet. The Governor rides up front, and Chauffeur Al Larrivee-not uniformed-is careful to keep a cache of chocolates and nuts for his boss in the glove compartment...
...Victory at the Norfolk Naval Operating Base, had been designed by Wilbur Herbert Burnham, a famed designer of church windows. But this one was different. It showed the Virgin Mary surrounded by tanks, antiaircraft guns, planes, blimps. Instead of the Infant Jesus, the Virgin was holding a destroyer-escort vessel...