Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About a week out, the convoy steamed smoothly along the broad Atlantic seaway. Lookouts were on the alert. The ships were out of range of the landbased PBYs and Liberators which gave them anti-submarine protection on the first stage of their journey. Now they were on their...
While the bombers continued to blast away, an Allied convoy of 25 cargo ships and ten large landing barges, escorted by U.S. battleships, cruisers, destroyers and an aircraft carrier, was reported by the Axis to have streamed past Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean. This was the second Allied convoy to enter the Mediterranean last week. The first fought off a night & day attack by Axis bombers and reached port without loss or damage...
...same night a little fleet of landing boats moved out from Papua, toward the Trobriand and Woodlark Islands. Lieut. Commander John D. Bulkeley, the famed "expendable" who brought General MacArthur out of Corregidor, commanded an escorting section of PT boats. Overhead low-flying P-38s also guarded the convoy...
Last week the Coast Guard announced that the 47-year-old Mayflower was getting a complete refit at Norfolk, would soon go to war again, this time as a convoy escort vessel...
...convoy. John Hersey, TIME correspondent aboard a destroyer, told how the situation was handled...