Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stubborn Russian troops in the fortress of Sevastopol, a convoy ran in supplies across the Black Sea. Meanwhile, in rear areas, tank engines were tuned, fuel moved forward, every day the sun shone brighter. And every day Russians and Germans, like swimmers fighting in a millrace, were swept closer to the battle that may decide the fate of Europe...
After dark on the day of the Channel skirmish, the Germans sent another pack of speedsters against a British convoy in the North Sea. Again British destroyers blew two E-boats to flotsam, but this time the Germans fought back, spitting torpedoes. One torpedo punched the frail hull of the Vortigern, a 1,090-ton oldtimer, and she went down. The British patrol sloop Guillemot, a 580-tonner which can do little better than 20 knots, spotted an E-boat lying in ambush, crept up within 50 yards before the German crew woke up. The Guillemot sent...
...week began, British submarines claimed to have sunk eleven Axis ships attempting to by-pass Malta with reinforcements for Libya. The Italian Navy claimed that a major sea battle was raging, with a Malta-bound convoy as the prize...
...components: 34 uniformed newsmen and photographers who arrived with a big convoy of U.S. troops, plus such veterans of the Battles of Java and Singapore as A.P.'s C. Yates McDaniel, U.P.'s Harold Guard, the Chicago Daily News's much machine-gunned George Weller-a total of over two dozen correspondents, photographers, broadcasters, newsreelmen...
...waited weeks in Washington for credentials, were forbidden to send stories until USAFA headquarters, several hundred miles away, re-accredited them. First they were scooped on the news of the arrival of U.S. troops in Australia when the Chicago Sun's Edward Angly, who arrived on an earlier convoy, went to a neighboring town and filed a dispatch which the censor let slip past...