Escort for the Troops - USS New York by Anthony Saunders BAT95 carronades and musketry find their

carronades and musketry find their targets and casualties mount

The thatched roof of the hospital was fired by Zulu spears wrapped in burning grass and even some of the sick and the dying were dragged from their beds and pressed into the desperate hand-to-hand fighting

till scarcely 200 yards separated them from the intrepid Highlanders

462 ft) Plöcken Pass or via the 1

Escort for the Troops - USS New York by Anthony Saunders BAT95 carronades and musketry find theirDHM1266. Escort for the Troops USS New York by Anthony Saunders. The Atlantic ocean was the lifeline between Britain and America, as well as millions of tons of raw materials, GIs were also transported over in all manor of hastily converted liners. Protecting the troops from marauding u boats and German surface ships was of paramount importance to the allied fleets. Although USS New York spent a good deal of the war in the Atlantic, she also