Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought I'd die. That boat had to stay to pick up survivors and give protection to the convoy, and there I was lying on the deck. The navy came in then. Jeeze, they were good. Then we pulled out, and had a few engagements going home, but nothing to speak...
Since June planes and submarines had sunk upward of 140,000 tons of Axis shipping in the Mediterranean. According to the New York Herald Tribune's Russell Hill, not a single convoy from Italy, via Greece, makes the crossing without being spotted, attacked and attacked again. Montgomery, on the other hand, was getting reinforcements in a thickening stream: U.S. tanks, mobile artillery, planes. Ships unloaded supplies at Suez at the rate of 10,000 tons...
...India Government: "A pilgrim ship is slow and crowded and their sailings and destinations would be matters of public knowledge. Owing to the difficulty of enforcing a blackout in a pilgrim ship [the majority of the passengers cook, sleep and live on deck] they cannot be taken in convoy with other vessels. . . . In case of anything happening to the ships the loss of life will be heavy...
...Army announced last week that a new Australia-to-U.S. flight record had been hung up: 35 hours 53 minutes from Brisbane to San Francisco in a C87 (transport version of Consolidated's Liberator bomber). The 7,000-mile trip takes up to four weeks by ship convoy...
While the Navy's convoy service seems to be winning the Battle of the Atlantic, it is fast losing the battle waged in the dancehalls and gay places of the Cambridge sector. For the latest reports from the convoy service conducted for lonely officers and college women indicates that insurmountable obstacles have arisen in the path of the powerful Navy offensive in this direction...