Word: escorter
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...Luftwaffe was at wit's end. Its fighters might hurt but they could never stop the ponderous, night-hidden R.A.F. Fighter protection for U.S. daylight formations is neutralizing the Luftwaffe's newfangled rockets and its bombing technique against U.S. formations-so long as the bombers stay within escort range, which has not yet lengthened enough to embrace inner Germany. Many a U.S. gunner returns nowadays with ammunition boxes heaped high with unused shells...
...warship sunk-the torpedoed escort carrier Liscome Bay.* Many went down with her off Makin, including her skipper, Captain Irving D. Wiltsie, and a task force commander aboard her, Rear Admiral Henry M. Mullinnix...
...Comrade Sergeant at Arms," said the commander, "you shall escort the candidates and place them before the flag...
...Eighth Air Force maintained its attacks from Britain at the un precedented rate of one mass raid every two and a half days. In an attack on Bremen, Thunderbolts and P-38 Lightnings made their longest escort penetration of the war (900 round-trip miles). Lost: 15 heavy bombers. U.S. and British heavy bombers from North Africa and the R.A.F. Bomber Command in Britain attacked the Germans' rail lines between France and Italy, reported that the most important of them had been severed at least temporarily...
...Task Force 21.14-the Card, the 1919 destroyers Barry, Goff and the late Borie-last week went a Presidential Unit Citation for destroying "more submarines than any other team in Naval history." That beats a previous high scorer: the escort carrier "B" (TIME, July 26), another "baby flat-top," and her escorts. Their pigboat score: eleven probables, three certains...