Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recommend the United States seaman who, in the recent battle in the Barents Sea between a Russia-bound convoy and the Germans, having been torpedoed, was riding astride a capsized lifeboat, waving his arms as the other ships in the convoy passed him, and shouting "Hi-Yo Silver...
...noon the next day the military governor had been replaced and the town was quiet once more. At dusk a convoy of British troops entered Teheran, marched through the deserted streets with bayonets fixed and machine guns swinging. Teheran was under control...
...dusk they maneuvered into the middle of a coastwise convoy of six cargo ships and three small naval vessels. Away went the sub's torpedoes and down went two Jap merchantmen. Klakring let his crew take a look through the periscope at "this very pretty sight." When the other Jap ships, panic-stricken, turned and raced for the shore, Klakring surfaced and gave chase. He dogged one ship into a cove and plumped a torpedo into her middle. It was a lucky hit at long range. But, said Klakring, a soft-spoken Marylander, "If I had missed...
...Cheers. Life after that continued to be eventful. Klakring & crew spotted an 8,000-ton transport in a harbor entrance, navigated the dangerous waters inshore and sank their fifth victim. Next "we got in a tussle with seven ships, a convoy of armed merchantmen and naval auxiliaries, all firing at us. The battle . . . lasted an hour and a half, us in the middle of them all the time." Airplanes dropped depth bombs, which made a lot of noise but did no damage. This fight was also within sight of a staring audience on the shore, which inspired the mild Klakring...
After a month of Russian black-bread, a kind of Juniper tea, and English Spillers' Biscuits, Haskell got a berth on a ship in a convoy bound for home. He reached port on August...