Word: escorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These figures made it clear that 1) the German fighters had found ways to break through the long-range escort cover; 2) when they did, the bombers with new and improved gun turrets were well able to take care of themselves. New German tactics were unavailing. Rocket-carrying Me-210s lined up six abreast, attacked the bombers head on, peeled off to the left. Then five or six more would come...
...Luftwaffe was at wit's end. Its fighters might hurt but they could never stop the ponderous, night-hidden R.A.F. Fighter protection for U.S. daylight formations is neutralizing the Luftwaffe's newfangled rockets and its bombing technique against U.S. formations-so long as the bombers stay within escort range, which has not yet lengthened enough to embrace inner Germany. Many a U.S. gunner returns nowadays with ammunition boxes heaped high with unused shells...
...warship sunk-the torpedoed escort carrier Liscome Bay.* Many went down with her off Makin, including her skipper, Captain Irving D. Wiltsie, and a task force commander aboard her, Rear Admiral Henry M. Mullinnix...
...Comrade Sergeant at Arms," said the commander, "you shall escort the candidates and place them before the flag...
...Task Force 21.14-the Card, the 1919 destroyers Barry, Goff and the late Borie-last week went a Presidential Unit Citation for destroying "more submarines than any other team in Naval history." That beats a previous high scorer: the escort carrier "B" (TIME, July 26), another "baby flat-top," and her escorts. Their pigboat score: eleven probables, three certains...