HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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A conversation
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A group of people
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A group of military ships that escorts and protects other ships carrying valuable goods and supplies
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A group of military aircraft that prepares for war
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Detailed explanation-1: -A convoy is a group of vehicles, typically motor vehicles or ships, traveling together for mutual support and protection. Often, a convoy is organized with armed defensive support and can help maintain cohesion within a unit. It may also be used in a non-military sense, for example when driving through remote areas.
Detailed explanation-2: -a group of ships or vehicles that travel together, esp. for protection: a convoy of supply ships.
Detailed explanation-3: -Verb The tankers were convoyed by warships. Police and FBI agents convoyed the President to the White House. Noun a long convoy of trucks The President always travels in a convoy.
Detailed explanation-4: -These goods were transported in thousands of merchant ships, which were vulnerable to attack by German submarines (U-boats). As there were not enough warships to protect thousands of individual merchant ships, they were grouped into convoys with naval escorts, making them hard to find and difficult to attack.
Detailed explanation-5: -The commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean, Somerset Calthorpe, began introducing the convoy system for the route from Port Said to Britain in mid-October 1917.