Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were Japanese ships, headed toward New Guinea. The news was an answer to Lieut. General George C. Kenney's prayers. Taking cover under the gathering storm, a Japanese convoy had slipped out of Rabaul and was edging down the dark New Britain coast with reinforcements for Lae, main Jap base in New Guinea. The Japs, driven out of Guadalcanal and Papua, were obviously pouring men and supplies into the chinks of their outposts north of Australia...
...convoy plowed westward deep into the Bismarck Sea before Kenney struck. High above the convoy, Fortresses first laid a closely woven pattern of bombs. A 6,000-ton Jap cargo ship broke in half. A 10,000-tonner, hit five times, went up in flames. Another cargo ship caught fire. Twice again that day, Fortresses and Liberators returned to the attack, shot down five defending Zeros...
...Army patrol pilot operating out of New Guinea saw a torpedo from the Argonaut hit a Jap destroyer with a Rabaul-bound convoy. Other destroyers dropped depth charges. Argonaut porpoised, broke the surface at a sharp angle, was shelled in that helpless position till she sank...
...that the blitz is past, the plot has turned to the work of decontamination quads, convoy defense, firewatching, visits to the symphony and variety shows, etc. Worldwide listeners still send their favorite characters packets of tea and sugar, bundles of butter and chocolate. Like U.S. soap operas, however, this one has roused some dissenters. One weary British Tommy wrote of the Robinsons, in their own dialect, from the African desert. Said he: "They are proper stupid...
...days later, lurking in the same waters, the Wahoo sighted a fat Jap convoy. First a freighter was sunk, next a troop-jammed transport, then a tanker; finally, with the Wahoo's last torpedo, a second freighter. The sweep was clean. Later the Wahoo, its supply of torpedoes gone, had to let another convoy pass unharmed. Said Lieut. Commander Dudley W. Morton, skipper of the broom-flaunting Wahoo: ''When you have no torpedoes you sure feel naked...