Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then a large plane carrying a 500-or 1,000-lb. bomb came from the starboard. Mount 2 put a 5-inch projectile squarely into it and the plane disintegrated 200 yards from us. Another plane apparently hit by the air patrol came by in a mass of flame and crashed off the port bow. The next Jap plane knocked off the other yardarm and crashed alongside. The last plane approached from the starboard and dropped a bomb amidships, killing several men in the wardroom where a doctor was treating the wounded...
...Navy commissioned its newest carrier this week-Fighting Lady, all wood, 103 feet long. She will patrol the lower plaza in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center as an attention-getter for the Seventh War Loan drive...
...Desk Sergeant Charles White leaned back in his chair, said: "My God, things are dead. . . . Nothing like last time, when they tried to burn the city hall." Three minutes later the first alarm sounded. A few blocks away, patrolmen found a streetcar burning. Then a mob tipped over the patrol wagon. Then a sailor ignited the gas that spilled...
...infantry and one armored divisions of the U.S. First Army had pulled up along the narrow Mulde River, a western tributary of the Elbe. One morning a patrol from the 69th Division's 273rd Regiment, sent out to direct surrendering German soldiers and liberated Allied prisoners to the rear, rolled beyond its officially prescribed radius of action and found itself in Torgau. This patrol consisted of four Yanks in a jeep-Second Lieutenant William D. Robertson, a small, wiry officer from Los Angeles, and three enlisted...
...SHAEF, however, the Supreme Commander's hard-working chief of staff, Lieut. General Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, made it clear that the official U S. -Russian junction would not be a haphazard patrol contact, and that it would not be casually reported. The time and place had been agreed on: the announcement would be a joint fanfare from Washington, London and Moscow...