Word: escorts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German operators received the XXI more than a year too late. We did not need that type submarine against the tired Jap. In my considered opinion, if Jap air and escort-borne radar had punished our subs at the rate ours did the Germans, our designers would have produced a snorkel and other necessary equipment in less time than did the Germans...
...work back to the spot, Sierks was out of sight in the vastness of the Pacific. Six nearby yachts converged on the area when they heard L'Apache radio the shocking message: "Man overboard!" From Honolulu, 800 miles away, the Navy sent ships to the manhunt: an escort carrier, four destroyers, three destroyer escorts. An airrescue B-17 droned out from the Army's Hickam Field to join in the search...
Aboard the destroyer escort Douglas A. Munro the captain pledged a $50 reward for the first man to spot Sierks. The Navy, which knows how long a man can last in the open sea, ordered the search ended at 2 p.m. At 1:15 two seamen sighted a bobbing blond head, lost it, then picked it up again...
...Police Escort. Atlanta's largest nonsegregated audience since Reconstruction days jammed the municipal auditorium to hear a speech by Nobel Prizewinner Bunche, which closed the six-day convention. He lashed the Senate for failing to pass Civil Rights legislation, said bluntly: "I can never be fully relaxed in Atlanta, fine city that it is ... since I abhorracial prejudice and its evil end products, discrimination and segregation. I can find more than enough of that far to the north . . . Among those heroic men fighting for the freedom of all of us in Korea are many American Negroes...
...minute rest period, he soon found out what the referee meant-and learned a little about German boxing fans. Angrily taking up the cry of foul, the crowd filled the air with a barrage of pebbles, pop bottles and seat cushions that sent Robinson scurrying for cover with an escort of 20 cops. Not until he had escaped from Berlin aboard a U.S. military train for Frankfurt did Robinson finally learn the official outcome of the fight: no decision...