Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into San Francisco Bay, through the mists of a grey Christmas morning, steamed a somber little convoy. Aboard were women and children bombed out of their homes in Honolulu, boys and men of the Navy wounded and burned in Pearl Harbor before they ever had a chance to fight back...
...evening settles with the dust of battle, a huge supply convoy comes up, like a great merchant fleet. It forms in close laager-the unprotected vehicles at the core, a ring of armored cars and tanks on the watch outside...
...Survivors of the torpedoed freighter Bold Venture said that approximately 15 submarines sank 13 vessels of a 53-unit convoy the night the American destroyer Reuben James went down...
...steamed along in a convoy last week, her 65,000 square feet of flight deck glistening under the Mediterranean sun, she seemed unsinkable. Men on the off watch were washing up for tea. Suddenly there was a crash amidships to starboard; all over the ship the lights went out. Every man knew that the Ark's luck-insurance had lapsed. A torpedo had found...
Adolf Hitler's new plans hinged on France, which his armies smashed 17 months ago. According to Berne, he had proposed to Vichy a five-point program consisting of two demands and three concessions. Demands: i) the French Navy would undertake Mediterranean convoy duty "under key German officers"; 2) Germany would be allowed to transport troops and munitions across French North Africa...