Word: gantlets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their group being sunk far out in the Atlantic the day after their armed escorts left them. A ship carrying 320 British poor children to Canada was sunk off Ireland, all hands being saved except the purser. Italy last week declared that some of her submarines had run the gantlet past Gibraltar to join in raiding Atlantic sea lanes. Thus, by sea as by air, Britain's position grew tougher & tougher...