Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patrols & Skirmishes. On the nationwide front there were patrol actions and skirmishes...
Kimmel had enough information (said King) to make him aware of the need to take extraordinary measures. His preparations were little more than routine. He could have maintained some kind of longdistance air reconnaissance, even with the few patrol planes...
...reversed this ratio by beefing up the electric batteries which power a submarine when submerged. Model 21 rarely had to surface because it used the "Schnorkel," an extendable air pipe which enables a submarine to recharge the batteries by diesel while submerged (TIME, Feb. 19). In one 45-day patrol, Model 21 U-boat spent all but four days under water. Only drawback: cooped-up living conditions. Some 116 of the formidable Model 21s were built, but minor defects kept them from going to sea on real war patrols...
...Milt Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, weeks after V-J day, was still in a Jap spy chase on a Pacific island, but agile Artist Caniff already has figured a way to keep 'em flying: Colonel "Flip" Corkin will organize an. air police team to patrol Jap waters...
Occasional Japs made for our task group, but the Combat Air Patrol or the antiaircraft guns shot them down...