Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rome and Berlin radio broadcasters last week worked overtime giving news of Allied preparations in the Middle East for a drive toward southeastern Europe. Germany reported that Allied troops were massing in Syria. Italy reported at least one large convoy en route through the eastern Mediterranean to the Middle East. Berlin reported an order of the day by Iraq's Premier General Nuri Pasha es-Said to his troops saying that active service was approaching. Warned the Rome radio: "Large British forces are concentrating along the southern frontier of Turkey...
...official British account of two simultaneous convoy actions in May told how aircraft escort carriers, land-based airplanes, and surface vessels are cooperating to beat the U-boats...
...separate action with another convoy, the British destroyer Hesperus in two days attacked three U-boats, probably destroyed at least...
...order came to "secure." It was over for the moment. Results: uncertain. If the submarine had not been hit, he would certainly radio the convoy's position to other U-boats. More action could be expected soon...
Many of them next ship on a freighter in a huge North Atlantic convoy, Murmansk-bound. Attacked in mid-ocean by a fleet of German submarines, the ship leaves the convoy, but is trailed by one of the U-boats, runs under some Nazi bombers, is finally torpedoed by the dogging sub. Acting as captain in place of the wounded Massey, Bogart sets fire to his own decks, pretends to abandon ship, makes the Germans come to the surface, then rams and sinks them. The freighter limps into port with cargo intact...