Word: flotilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny flotilla moved in battle line toward the still-sleeping village of St. Pierre, a lone bristle-bearded Breton sailor ran down to the quai to greet it, his wooden sabots clattering and slipping on the icy streets. In the still morning air the whole harbor could hear him bilingually swearing: "Pétain, le sacre bleu cochon, le old goat!" . . . With trembling hands he lashed the first corvette line to a bollard. "Vive De Gaulle," he shouted. "At last I can say it. Vive De Gaulle...
...Philippines the Japanese, with the initiative still in their chubby hands, appeared to be starting their big push this week. Off Lingayen Gulf, 120 miles northwest of Manila, the U.S. forces reported sighting a flotilla of 80 enemy transports, announced that the major drive had begun. General Douglas MacArthur had long anticipated a heavy attack at Lingayen. An earlier thrust, in which the Japanese tried to put down troops from 154 motorboats, had been beaten off by a Philippine division which did not let a single Jap soldier reach shore alive. But more attempts were bound to come...
Later she was in the English Channel during the fierce German air assault on Plymouth and brought down a total of 27 Luftwaffe planes. On a mission in the Mediterranean, the "Newcastle" and six other English vessels attacked an Italian flotilla of 21 ships which fled after the British had sunk a cruiser and a destroyer, suffering only five casualties themselves...
Whistling in the Dark (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is not the funniest picture out of Hollywood. But it has enough effective low comedy to ease M.G.M.'s brand-new cinecomic down the ways without swamping him. This newest addition to Hollywood's fast-growing flotilla of former burlesque comedians is a bristly, uninhibited, redheaded young man named Red Skelton, who looks and acts not unlike Comedian Bob Hope...
...landlocked by forest-smothered, humidity-choked countryside. It is a huge roadstead, capable of mooring the largest fleets. It has a seaplane landing as well as facilities for watering, coaling and minor repairs. For the last few weeks its ample anchorage has been taxed by a constantly shifting flotilla of about 100 merchant ships of all pro-British registries...