Over hundreds of miles of blue ocean, Kinkaid’s convoys circled and rendezvoused, assembled into formations, and sailed ever northward, a mighty host of 738 warships, their varying shapes and sizes so diverse as to present nearly a complete picture of mid-twentieth-century naval hardware. There were six battleships, five heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, including Nashville, eighteen escort carriers, eighty-six destroyers, and twenty-five destroyer escorts, all protecting a staggering assemblage of some 420 ships needed to carry four reinforced infantry divisions, plus supporting troops, to
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