Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Window" experiments were conducted secretly out at sea, but trials of electronic jamming were harder to conceal. Once the researchers tied up the whole Boston police communication system for half an hour by accidentally jamming the patrol cars' short-wave radios. On another occasion, the New Haven Railroad electrified lines were stopped in their tracks by a form of Window called "Rope"--rolls of aluminium tape, which fell from planes and draped themselves across high-tension wires, short-circuiting them
...Raiders. He stormed ashore with them on Makin Island, killed one Jap with his rifle butt in hand-to-hand combat. The Raiders went on to Guadalcanal and there, during Carlson's famous 30-day patrol behind enemy lines, among other feats Smith knocked out two machine-gun nests and choked one Jap to death. Willing to volunteer for anything, he served a tour as an aerial gunner ("I wasn't doing anything at the time") and shot down two planes...
...Tinian he and Pfc. Al Shirley, of Los Angeles, made an unauthorized patrol ahead of advancing tanks to defuse land mines. They captured a machine gun, turned it on the enemy and killed 19. Pfc. Shirley used a whole clip from a Browning automatic rifle to knock down a Jap before the machine gun was taken. For such waste, Sergeant Smith gave him a good dressing-down...
...many U.S. warships had World War II cost? Last week the Navv told. Beginning with the destroyer Reuben James, sunk on Atlantic patrol by a U-boat five weeks before Pearl Harbor, and ending with the submarine Bullhead, which disappeared in the Java Sea just as Japan quit, the total was 701. The list included 157 first-line combat ships, plus 544 supporting ships and auxiliaries ranging from troopships to 15-ton yard craft...
Auto Suggestion. In Manhattan, three well-worn police patrol wagons - known in the trade as "pie wagons" - were sold for pie wagons...