Word: merchantmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 16, 1941 Reporter O'Donnell sent his papers a dispatch which they printed next day and which said: "Charges that battlecraft of the Navy and Coast Guard are now giving armed escort to munition-laden British merchantmen leaving Atlantic ports exploded . . . tonight." Next day the strongly pro-New Deal Record printed an editorial saying: "A few hours after the [O'Donnell] story appeared, the President denounced it as 'a deliberate lie.' . . . John O'Donnell is a Naziphile. ... On numerous occasions, to all friends and barflies within hearing, he has broadcast his sympathy with most...
Whatever the task, it must be done: lurking Nazi U-Boats recently sank as much as 1,000,000 tons of Allied shipping in a single month (TIME, Jan. 25), an annual rate actually in excess of the record-breaking 10,000,000 tons of merchantmen delivered by U.S. and British yards last year...
...newly designed, highly efficient destroyer escorts (DEs), U.S. counterpart for Britain's corvettes, in transatlantic convoy. But the program as a whole is late. The destroyer-escort situation is worst, since only a handful have been delivered. As a result a single destroyer often convoys 15 hapless merchantmen across the Atlantic v. the ideal setup, which would be closer to one escort for every three freighters...
...ceded provinces-Nord and Pas-de-Calais-fortifications were being built and the last French inhabitants evacuated. Five destroyers, two tugs and many French merchantmen were being taken over by German crews to carry and convoy supplies to German forces in Tunisia. A 140-man German mission arrived in Paris to inventory French industry and arrange to increase poverty-stricken France's already big exports to Germany...
Besides these battle carriers the U.S. is producing literally dozens of carriers converted from merchantmen. These are too slow for efficient battle use, but they are invaluable for getting land-based air power to points of contact across the seas...