Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...break over Hawaii, the destroyer Patterson was only four years old and one of the best. A survivor of Dec. 7's disaster, she became one of the thin line of U.S. warships left to stop the Jap fleet in the Pacific. Lean as an alley cat, "Pat" stalked off to westward...
...time. On the blackest night in U.S. naval history, off Savo Island, the Japs destroyed the Allied cruisers Astoria, Quincy, Vincennes and Canberra. Pat, hit and hurt, stood by and picked up 400 survivors. It was the kind of work expected of destroyers. They were the tin cans and expendable...
With little rest Pat labored on, convoying ships off Australia, operating in the "Slot," seeing the tide of war turn at last as reinforcements began to arrive from a nation which had tardily remembered its Navy. She fought at Saipan and Tinian. She was a picket ship. She was fire support. She was mobile 5-in. artillery steaming inshore against Jap pillboxes. She operated at Guam and later at Palau and later with Halsey in the second Battle of the Philippines...
Like her sister cans, she seldom figured in communiques, but she was beloved by the big ships whenever there was trouble. ("Screen us, Pat!") She rescued 124 men from the blazing Ommaney Bay. She rescued 106 survivors of the Bismarck Sea off Iwo Jima. She fought off Okinawa. When there was nothing else to do she carried the mail...
...shrewd, gregarious Pat Hurley had helped smooth out many a rough spot before Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung traveled the road to Chungking. Behind his façade of storytelling joviality he had worked mightily and effectively for better U.S. understanding of Chiang's problems, better Chinese understanding of U.S. aims. Before he left Chungking a fortnight ago, he had received the final farewells of the Generalissimo (in whose residence he had lived for a time) and Madame Chiang. On the whole, Pat Hurley could feel well satisfied that he had accomplished his mission...