Word: flotilla
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...Twenty-four Jap warships were on the bottom: two battleships, four carriers, nine cruisers, three flotilla leaders and six destroyers...
...Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, it was a time of anguish. He must get the 1st and 9th Submarine Flotillas away from Brest, the 2nd and 10th from Lorient, the 6th and 7th from St. Nazaire. But where could he send them? The only other Biscay bases were La Pallice and Bordeaux, each with facilities for only one flotilla, which already crowded the pens. Farther north were Bergen and Trondheim, with berths for a single flotilla apiece. But the Allied navies patrolled the Atlantic looking for U-boats on the escape routes and the Mediterranean was an Allied lake, closed...
...Frederick John Walker, 48, "Nelson of the little ships," crafty, courageous stalker of U-boats; of a heart attack; somewhere in England. A Navy man for 34 years, a four-time winner of the D.S.O., balding, sunken-eyed Walker led the Royal Navy's Second Escort Group, a flotilla of five sloops. His uncanny nose for pigboats netted his flotilla a score...
...invasion had gone well. As might be expected in an operation of such size and complexity, there had been surprises for both sides. One big surprise for the Germans had been the Allied timing on the beaches, a brilliant stroke which had sent in the vanguard of the great flotilla some four hours before the morning high tide which most military thinkers had regarded as necessary for the landing...
...British Admiralty announced that 3,700 volunteers had answered its call for yachtsmen and small-boat handlers. The boatmen, many of them veterans of the incredible flotilla that saved the B.E.F. at Dunkirk, are manning small craft in the harbors. Like other British civilians, they are waiting; but they will not have to wait quite so long...