Word: convoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glimpse of him as he passed on the way from Montrouge Prison to the Palais de Justice. Stiff with age and dignity, Pétain sat far in the back of the van. His wife, two doctors, two nurses and three lawyers trailed him in a five-car convoy. In the Palais courtyard the half-deaf old man was helped down by two gendarmes. "Ah," he quavered, "so we are here...
...Always known as Sir Bernard, to avoid confusion with older cousin Rear Admiral Henry Clive Rawlings, recently in service as a convoy commodore...
...Third Fleet set out again, I left the Ticonderoga for the Essex, Admiral Sher man's group flagship. January 12 was a great day. By 10:30 in the morning the Ticonderoga had got its first "well done" from Admiral Sherman - her planes had sighted a seven-ship convoy off French Indo-China, had sunk all. The fleet sank 41 ships totaling 127,000 tons that day. Said Sherman: "That Ticonderoga is a real ship." Three days later the Ti pilots shot down four Kamikaze planes headed for the Essex...
...China Convoy (Friends Ambulance Unit) was formed in 1941 by 40 young Britons released from military service as conscientious objectors. They learned that ambulances in China could not evacuate the wounded because no roads ran to the front. They also discovered that lack of transportation was keeping China's tiny stock of medical supplies bottled up in Kunming. The FAU promptly got hold of 25 trucks to keep the supplies moving to short-stocked hospitals...
...China Convoy has now grown to some 125 members-U.S., British and Chinese. None receives pay, and all personal funds are put into a common pool. Statistically, FAU's contribution does not seem large (average haul: 160,000 ton-kilometers every three months), but the group is actually distributing 90% of Free China's civilian medical supplies...