Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From hillsides bordering the harbor, San Franciscans saw the convoy slide under Golden Gate Bridge, the ships' black and grey daubed sides barely distinguishable from fog and water. Word spread quickly. Down to the docks, as close as armed guards would let them approach, rushed hundreds of eager, worried men and women: parents whose sons had been in the battle of Pearl Harbor, relatives of families left stranded in Hawaii when the attack came. They stood in the chill drizzle, waiting...
...afternoon before Christmas, while the convoy zigzagged slowly toward harbor, the passengers got up a little party for the wounded men who were in good enough shape to care about such things. They improvised presents: cartons of cigarets, razor blades, tooth paste, socks, candy, ties, handkerchiefs, anything they could find. All afternoon they worked wrapping them, in fancy Christmas papers removed from packages they had done up, in happier days, for their own families...
...Commandos waded ashore, up the snow-covered ledges, began a house-to-house struggle with the 200 soldiers of the German garrison. In the harbor five German vessels ran on the beach and were destroyed. Farther south the R.A.F. discovered a German convoy, sank at least one ship. The British planes also bombed the German airdrome at Herdla, 100 miles to the south...
Hefty, handsome Donald James Covert, 17, comes of a fighting family. His ancestors fought in the Revolution. His father served on convoy duty in World War I, is now a lieutenant commander. His eldest brother is in the Naval Reserve...
These two baby giant pandas (escorted by Zoologist John Tee-Van,) arrived safely in San Francisco last week after a hazardous journey by plane from Chungking to Manila, by ship from Manila to Hawaii, through the sub marine-infested Pacific in the first convoy to reach the West Coast since the Japanese attack. Captured last summer in the cool hills of inner China, they are presented to the U.S. by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek in gratitude for the activities of United China Relief. In a new, barless $15,000 home at New York City's Bronx...