During its nine Atlantic crossings not one ship under iys protection was lost to submarine or air attack.
During most of 1943, Howard plied the convoy lanes of the Atlantic and Caribbean protecting Allied ships from submarine and air attack.
In the north Atlantic and Mediterranean, the high risk of submarine and air attack would have made routine refuelling at sea highly dangerous.
SL81 was harried for the next two days by submarine and air attacks with the loss of five ships, until it reached safer waters with RAF support.
Hunts role in the operation was to protect Admiral Albert E. Montgomery's carrier group from submarine or air attack.
She served in the Pacific Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.
For the next five days, the destroyer escort screened the carriers against submarine and air attack while their aviators supported the troops on Leyte with close support and interdiction sorties.
In 1937 several exercises were carried out by Coastal Command in cooperation with submarines against the Home Fleet to judge the surface fleet's defence against submarine and air attack.
During the assault on Saipan, her planes continued to cover the Fleet against submarine and air attack, strafed the beaches, and spotted shellfire for gunfire support ships.
With the German occupation of Western Europe, the intensification of submarine and air attack on Britain's sea communications was feared by the British.
During its nine Atlantic crossings not one ship under iys protection was lost to submarine or air attack.
During most of 1943, Howard plied the convoy lanes of the Atlantic and Caribbean protecting Allied ships from submarine and air attack.
In the north Atlantic and Mediterranean, the high risk of submarine and air attack would have made routine refuelling at sea highly dangerous.
SL81 was harried for the next two days by submarine and air attacks with the loss of five ships, until it reached safer waters with RAF support.
Hunts role in the operation was to protect Admiral Albert E. Montgomery's carrier group from submarine or air attack.
She served in the Pacific Ocean and provided escort service against submarine and air attack for Navy vessels and convoys.
For the next five days, the destroyer escort screened the carriers against submarine and air attack while their aviators supported the troops on Leyte with close support and interdiction sorties.
In 1937 several exercises were carried out by Coastal Command in cooperation with submarines against the Home Fleet to judge the surface fleet's defence against submarine and air attack.
During the assault on Saipan, her planes continued to cover the Fleet against submarine and air attack, strafed the beaches, and spotted shellfire for gunfire support ships.
With the German occupation of Western Europe, the intensification of submarine and air attack on Britain's sea communications was feared by the British.
