Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Action began (both sides agreed) when Italian scouts spied a British squadron steaming west below Crete. Italian airplanes flew out to meet this foe and (said the Italians) damaged a battleship and an aircraft carrier, sank a cruiser. Meantime, an Italian battle squadron put out to protect other Italian warships which were returning from a convoy trip to Libya and evidently were the target of the British raiders from the East. Next day, in an engagement in the Ionian Sea off Cape Spartivento (toe of the Italian "boot") lasting from mid-afternoon until nightfall, the Italian warships (said the Italians...
...Britain. Mightiest Frenchman of them all, the brand-new, 35,000-ton Battleship Richelieu, mounting eight 15-inch guns and a bristling mass of lesser armament, lay somewhat ahead in the tropic darkness, inside a net-boom in the harbor of Dakar. Smaller French warships lay there, too, to protect her, and all were well warned of an impending attack. For the Richelieu's commander had been signaled and had refused surrender terms similar to those offered Vice Admiral Gensoul for his squadron at Oran last fortnight. As the deadline approached in the small hours, the flag officer...
...miles or more to keep the field artillery of the defenders from pounding the landing parties on the beachhead. Next, to land heavy equipment including larger guns and tanks as well as men in numbers for a major invasion it is necessary to bring large vessels into shore. To protect these a penetration of 15 to 20 miles is necessary so that heavy artillery cannot hammer the landing facilities...
...Dunkirk, they could put the invaders in an extremely uncomfortable position. If the Germans could command it they could lend their landing parties the equivalent of artillery support before artillery was actually landed. They could also land parachute troops and others to assist in the penetrations necessary to protect beachheads. Even if the original landing operations were not themselves successful, the British Fleet might so expose itself that it would lose too many vessels to be able to continue the defense of Britain. These were the grim possibilities which the British had to face when they again studied the strategic...
...Miss Royce was fired and replaced by Miss Tirza, who bathes in wine. Thereupon Rosita Royce entered suit against the White Way Casino. Indignantly she pointed out that, besides asking her to work too much, the Casino had failed to protect her doves from an unknown bird fancier, who took pot shots at the doves with a BB gun while they were protecting strategic points. At last, she said, she had appealed to Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson, who gave her a game warden to protect her fowl. At week's end Rosita had appealed to the American Guild...