Word: escorter
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...cruisers and destroyers with it. It was probably supported by some Grumman Wildcats from one of the U.S. carriers. But its own record was nevertheless superb. The ship, which must have been one of the new North Carolinas since they are the only U.S. battleships with enough speed to escort carriers, proved as well that it could take punishment. The 500-pounder caused so little damage that three weeks later, with Captain Gatch standing on the bridge with his left arm in a sling, the ship sailed into "Windy Gulch," between Guadalcanal and Savo, and helped win the great night...
...cost mass production of small naval vessels in one-third Navy-schedule time. Its management: dapper, energetic Herman Brown, 50, and fast-thinking, early-rising George Brown, 44, a pair of six-foot brothers who were construction contractors only 18 months ago. Last week Brown Shipbuilding christened the destroyer escort S. S. Tomich, the eighth ship launched in eight days and a new record for the yard...
Less than ten months after the destroyer escort contract was signed, DEs were plopping into the water so fast it startled even veteran Navymen, and average building time was being slashed two-thirds. All this worked wonders in Washington where the Navy started shoveling out new Brown shipbuilding contracts so fast that the infant company's backlog is now over $300,000,000-more orders on hand than giant 38-year-old Bethlehem Steel had three years...
...clear was the afternoon that some of the crews, passing well to the south of Paris, had their first sight of the Eiffel Tower. But most of them were too busy for rubbernecking: all the way in from the Channel coast, despite a strong escort of Allied fighters, the bombers were bedeviled by clouds of Focke-Wulf 1905 and Messerschmitt logs, based in great force in western France and manned by skillful pilots...
Since May 14, when the first coastal convoy moved from a U.S. port with the Angry among its escort, the Angry had, helped shepherd 22 convoys to their secret destinations through seas where submarines hid. Two days out of every three, the Angry had been at sea. To bigger ships, to men in situations more readily recognizable as heroic, had gone the headlines and the medals. The Angry's first task was to get each supply-chocked freighter through to safety; its second, to sink U-boats...