Word: merchantmen
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...Axis convoy of ten cargo ships and two destroyers and sank all twelve. British submarines, raiding the overwater supply line to Rommel in North Africa, sank 1,335,000 tons of Axis shipping. Malta, bombed and isolated, faced starvation, and between January and August 1942 British warships convoying merchantmen made six attempts to go to her succor, punched through four battered convoys. The aircraft carrier Eagle was lost with some destroyers, thousands of merchant tons...
...British submarine surfaced in an Italian port, signaled eight Italian merchantmen: "Follow me." The Italians followed...
...Knox's estimates: when the war began, Japan had 6,368,891 tons of merchantmen. Since then she has added approximately a million tons of ships seized, ships salvaged and ships new-built (mostly wooden ones).* Of that total tonnage of about 7,500,000, the Allies have sunk 2,500,000 tons...
...four months ago, Allied authorities expected to be losing ship after ship to the greatest of U-boat campaigns, the actual losses were astoundingly small. In fact, the ocean lanes to Britain and North Africa last week were more dangerous for Germany's U-boats than for Allied merchantmen...
Last week the Navy released these new details of the worst convoy disaster in U.S. history. On that night, last February, more than 850 U.S. soldiers and sailors died in the North Atlantic when two merchantmen went down. Said Ship's Cook George Dunningham: "There were a lot of men yelling and blowing whistles. Many of them were in the water, and each had his red rescue light lit. It looked like a weird, strange dream...