Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sept. 9-Enemy aircraft spotted the convoy wallowing north from Britain. No attack came for three days, but in the interim one U-boat was driven...
Sept. 12.-Aircraft and submarines started shadowing the convoy. Six bombers made a high-level attack. Then 40 to 50 torpedo bombers came down in close formation. Ack-ack got five. Carrier-based planes got five more. Enemy mine layers then appeared, and the convoy's minesweepers went into action. Later nine more torpedo bombers attacked, but were kept at a safe distance. Two were downed. At dusk came a third contingent of twelve. Six were sent crashing into...
Only once again, just before the convoy reached Russia, did the enemy attack. Twenty-four dive-bombers tried to finish it. No ships were damaged. Two enemy planes were downed...
...first time Hurricane fighters, adapted for use from carriers which seldom can be spared for convoy duty, were used successfully to protect a convoy from land-based aircraft...
...Diana as Personality Deb of the Year, swore she could have outstripped blazing Brenda as Glamor Girl if she had half tried. Diana palled around with Brenda a little, was reported engaged to Anthony Duke, Francis Kellogg, Harry Ellerbee (whom she called Poopsie), Sir William Wrixon-Becher, and a convoy of others, including Actor Bramwell Fletcher. Last summer, yes-she married...