Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually all the Japs attempted was to intercept a convoy and to evacuate their own officers and technicians from Guadalcanal. The fighting consisted entirely of air attacks on surface vessels rather than warship slugging it out against warship. The heavy cruiser Chicago was damaged January 29 and sunk in a second attack the next day. An unnamed destroyer was sunk by dive bombers February 1. The Japs lost two destroyers sunk; four destroyers probably destroyed; six other destroyers, one corvette and two cargo ships damaged...
...Navy people were on hand. In a country where two weeks without rain is considered a drought, civilian employes of two U.S. construction companies sloshed through ankle-deep mud, grading, putting up Quonset huts, getting machinery under some kind of cover. Every nut, bolt and machine had come by convoy from the U.S. and so-25 days after the commissioning-did about 300 Navy technicians...
...Canada has built and put in operation some 500 warships, most of them escort craft which are doing nearly half the Atlantic convoy work...
...convoy of transports, apparently going to Guadalcanal and covered by a naval task force, had been attacked twice. The first attack was 60 miles due south of Guadalcanal, off Rennell Island. The Japs claimed two battleships, three cruisers...
...about 8 o'clock the group left Phillips Brooks House in a convoy of about 15 army trucks for the Induction Center. Several army officers were present and stood at attention as the men left...