Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since early this summer it has provided the close escort for all convoys between North America and the United Kingdom, including the biggest convoy ever: 150 ships which recently delivered a million-ton cargo to England. At the same time R.C.N. ships made up 30% of the general support units roaming the North Atlantic. Canada's is a small-ship Navy, greater in numbers than in gunpower: 20 destroyers, 45 frigates, 100 corvettes, 60 minesweepers, Macdonald said, though he admitted that he was purposely understating the figures. Britain still holds title to the Canadian-crewed aircraft carriers Puncher...
...British cruiser and four destroyers caught the convoy, sank all seven vessels. Another convoy, sneaking away from Brittany, sighted the British force, turned and sneaked back to Saint-Nazaire, perhaps to try the dash to Bordeaux another time...
...Oikawa. Before Oikawa, who self-consciously calls war an art, had time to prove his artistry, the U.S. Pacific Fleet had humiliated him even more than his predecessors had been. A fast carrier task force bored into the Bonin Islands-closer to Tokyo than ever before-destroyed a Jap convoy and plastered Empire military and naval works less than 600 miles from Imperial Headquarters...
Carriers stood off the Bonins to send off aircraft which swooped upon the big, heavily escorted convoy. They sank four cargo ships, three naval escort craft, four barges. Then, for the first time in the new island campaign, U.S. surface ships closed in for the kill with their guns. They sank a large destroyer, a cargo ship, other miscellaneous items of Oikawa's auxiliary navy...
...Ever Forget." When Einstein lived in England, the Government insisted on a Scotland Yard convoy wherever he went; pretty young society girls stood guard with rifles outside his hideaway on the English seacoast. At Manhattan's gilded Metropolitan Opera House, audiences have been known to rise to salute his entrance in the midst of an aria. Marianoff tells of overhearing a mother say to her small son in a city street: "There is Albert Einstein. Don't ever forget that you have seen...