Word: refuelers
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...refuel and resupply ships...
...Canal Zone employes, nightclub owners and Colon cabaret girls, along with British Honduras' leading businessman: shrewd "Captain" George Gough, so-called "King of Belize" (rhymes with sneeze). All were part of a spy ring which not only informed Nazi submarines of United Nations ship movements, but helped to refuel the subs at little-known keys and hidden shore bases used three centuries ago by Caribbean buccaneers...
...probably more lucrative was Gough's fleet of ten small schooners, used to refuel Nazi subs at clandestine rendezvous...
...hours later, Japanese torpedo-planes attacked the same carrier. Fighters on the flight deck, just in to refuel, took off with nearly empty tanks, flew through their own fire, beat off the attackers...
Long-range Army bombers could fly from Hawaii and Johnston Island, refuel and load bombs on Midway, then join the struggle. Or they could fly laden from Hawaii, expend their gasoline and bombs wherever they found Jap warships, then land on Midway if that were possible. If not, they could come down at sea. This was war. This was the kill...