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The five paragraph order or five paragraph field order is a style of organizing information about a military situation for a unit in the field. It is an element of Canadian Army, United States Army, United States Marine Corps and United States Navy Seabees small unit tactics, and similar order styles are used by military groups around the world.
An Operation Order, often abbreviated to OPORD, is a plan format meant to assist subordinate units with the conduct of military operations.An OPORD describes the situation the unit faces, the mission of the unit, and what supporting activities the unit will conduct in order to achieve their commander's desired end state.
NCAGS personnel act as a liaison between military commanders and the civil authorities. During war, the NCAGS organization may be responsible for establishing a convoy. NCAGS is used by many NATO countries during exercises such as Bell Buoy. NCAGS has been an important part of the naval reserves.
29 July 1942 – U-132 sank one ship from convoy ON 113 escorted by WLEF. [18] 27 August 1942 – Flower-class corvette HMCS Oakville sank U-94 while U-511 sank two ships from convoy TAW 15. [19] 3 September 1942 – U-517 sank one ship from convoy NL 6 escorted by Flower-class corvette HMCS Weyburn and Bangor-class minesweeper HMCS Clayoquot. [20]
a brief tanker series ARG Boston to Argentia, Newfoundland: USN convoys AW Aruba to Curaçao: local tanker traffic BS Corner Brook, Newfoundland to Sydney, Nova Scotia: a brief series BW Sydney, Nova Scotia to St. John's, Newfoundland: 1942 BX: Boston to Halifax Harbour: 21 March 1942 22 May 1945 CK Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida: CL
The main convoy of eleven merchant ships left Boston on 3 May, and two ships left Saint John as convoy BX 13A on 5 May. BX 14 was the first of the series to sail from Portland, Maine , on 7 May. These early WLEF convoys sailed with as few as a single ship as the United States struggled to efficiently control sailing dates.
SC 122 was a slow eastbound convoy of 60 ships, routed from New York to Liverpool. (This was during the period when SC convoys were switched from Sydney, Cape Breton, to New York; this was reversed later due to congestion problems there.)
This is a list of convoy codes used by the Allies during World War II There were over 300 convoy routes organized, in all areas of the world; each was designated by a two- or three letter code. List of Allied convoys during World War II by region provides additional information.