Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven days Allied planes and naval units sowed high explosives around Borneo, in the southern end of General MacArthur's theater. Then from Tokyo came a voluble description of action. An Allied convoy, including a battleship, cruisers, destroyers and 50 other small warships massed off Brunei Bay, began bombarding Labuan Island, guarding the bay's entrance. The landing which followed, said Tokyo, was made with "about a division of troops." From Canberra came confirmation that men of the Australian Ninth Division had gone ashore in British North Borneo. Brunei Bay offered the Allies a fine fleet anchorage...
...along the route were small units of Tito's men. Fifteen minutes out of Trieste I saw a convoy of Indian troops moving slowly into the hills, and a few minutes later bumped into a company of Yanks from the 91st Division being directed to new positions by Yugoslav sentries who stood fascinated by the flow of vehicles...
...overcast. Escorting warships, deployed around the dead Franklin, fought them off and fought the Franklin's fires. It was now past noon. The Franklin was still belching smoke and beginning to list heavily when the cruiser Pittsburgh finally succeeded in taking her in tow. At three knots the convoy started crawling away from the shores of Japan, the Franklin yawing and staggering in her agony. Men went to work to correct her 13° list. Hydraulic controls for counter-flooding were out, but Downes and his men put on rescue breathers and groped their way below to the hand...
...treaty table and convoy the hopes of little people through expected straits...
Last week Reuters reported from London that on May 7-several hours after the Nazi surrender at Reims-a British and a Norwegian ship were sunk out of a convoy off the northeast British coast. Two British lives were lost...