Word: merchantmen
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...damage. But eight new battle carriers of the 25,000-ton Essex class and nine new Princetons, converted to carriers from cruisers, have been launched and are or soon will be in service. Most of these 20 carriers can be used in the Pacific, for scores of small converted-merchantmen carriers can do the anti-submarine work of the Atlantic...
...tiny Norwegian port of Bodo the carrier's planes, thus handsomely escorted, scored heavily: they put at least twelve direct hits on eight merchantmen (ranging in size from 3,000 to 10,000 tons). The planes also buffeted a landing barge, a 500-ton ship, a 1,200-ton ore vessel. Lost: three U.S. planes, destroyed by anti-aircraft fire...
...white city on a blue gulf. Beside it rose Vesuvius, breathing a plume of smoke. Around its feet clustered warships, steamers, merchantmen from Mediterranean ports. It was ancient. Virgil had lived in the city when he wrote his Georgics. Cicero had loafed among the villas. On its outskirts were the ancient suburbs of Herculaneum and Pompeii, which had been mummified 1,860 years ago by Vesuvius' erupting ash. It was a sight, a pile of palaces, churches, an opera house, university, museum, an aquarium where famous pale octopuses swam in tanks. It was slovenly and filthy and loud. Hoarse...
...other warships were reported sunk. So hot was the going that the two convoys united, then had some 18 escorts for 70 cargo ships. A German communiqué indicated that the subs had deliberately concentrated on escort ships rather than merchantmen...
...valleys, although few and difficult, lead to the vital Danube basin, a possible junction with the Red Army, and the shaky Nazi back door. Last week Allied sea power, in the form of a flotilla of torpedo boats, raided Albanian waters, exchanged fire with shore batteries, sank two enemy merchantmen. Italy is a base of air attack on Germany -directly from airdromes in Italy, by shuttle to & from Great Britain...