Word: convoying
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...British and U.S. airmen that the first big blow will settle things. The British therefore want to concentrate on guided missiles. They would abolish first the Fighter Command and then the "interim" long-range jet bombers when missiles are perfected; they would confine the Royal Navy largely to a convoy force of anti-submarine vessels, and the Land Army to a mobile ground force equipped to fight "brushfire wars...
Last week TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow went to watch the battle of the harvest in Western Oran department, in an armed convoy of halftracks and trucks. In the area he visited, 80 of the 300 French farms had been burned in the past fortnight and 20 Europeans killed, some after torture. He visited one pillaged farm where vineyards had been torn up, buildings burned, 1,432 barrels of wine poured on the ground. Said the farmer: "I spent my life making this farm. My son and his son will spend theirs repairing the destruction-if they are still here...
...Your Tears." Once the convoy drew fire, but when the troops searched the hilltop whence the bullets came, no one was there except some Moslem farmers scything their grain as though nothing had happened. On the way back a farmhouse could be seen burning brightly. "IndoChina was nothing compared to this," said the veteran commander...
...remembers the near contempt with which German subs sank ships in broad daylight within sight of the East Coast. How quickly Allied brains and guts turned the tide can be read in Morison's triumphant figures: of nearly 13,000 ships that sailed the North Atlantic in convoy in 1944, only 13 were sent to the bottom...
...teetering bridge; some 50 sailors and Royal Marines are wounded, two die in a bloody free-for-all on the decks. The H.M.S. Ulysses is a 5,500-ton light cruiser, "the first completely equipped radar ship in the world," the seeing-eye watchdog of the Murmansk convoy run. Unlike that long-drawn-out, suspenseful business on the Caine, Ulysses' mutiny has already taken place, and this is the story of her glorious "redemption." This being the Royal Navy, the mutiny was a lower-deck affair, and the only officer-villain goes overside. It differs from the Caine mutiny...