Word: rendezvouses
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The convoy, most spectacular spy-ring prize, was made up of Norwegian ships which had lain quietly in Göteborg harbor for two years. They stayed there pending a final decision by Swedish courts, turning down Nazi claims of "authorizations" from Norwegian owners, in favor of claims that the...
But probably more lucrative was Gough's fleet of ten small schooners, used to refuel Nazi subs at clandestine rendezvous.
But last year Fate brought Greece worse enemies than kings. The Goat knew they might even swarm over the sea to Crete, where weary-faced Greek and British soldiers were trying frantically to prepare for them. The Goat knew, too who the Man was that the English brought one night...
In Melbourne, Honolulu and Washington, pins moved and blue lights winked on Intelligence maps when the Japs shifted battleships, carriers and cruisers from the Bay of Bengal to the East Indies, then to home waters. Part of the Japanese main fleet moved southward toward a rendezvous at Formosa. Aircraft and...
There is MacArthur quietly picking Bataan as the ground on which to halt the Japanese, then calmly leading the struggle, calmly refusing to move for Japanese bombs, calmly leaving with his wife and four-year-old son in the high-powered speed boat (which had been his idea for Philippine...