Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were more concrete promises implied in dispatches from the east. During the week Moscow reported stiff patrol clashes in southern Poland, sharp local skirmishes along the Narew river south of East Prussia's border. At week's end the Germans reported a Russian attack of great strength (Berlin said 27 divisions) at the northern end of the quiet front-against the 100-mile-wide, 60-mile-deep pocket in Latvia. Clearing of this flank might be a preliminary to action in East Prussia and north Poland...
...ittai nan dai?" (What on earth is that?) cried a startled Japanese officer as a burst of elephant-gun fire whistled past his ears and a troop of half-naked Nagas leaped out of the bushes. He found out, but too late. He and his jungle patrol were wiped out. But last week other Japs who had survived the fight in northern Burma knew more about the Naga raiders and their leader. The half-naked tribesmen from northeastern India were directed by a white woman: pert, pretty Ursula Graham-Bower, 30, an archeology student who looks like a cinemactress...
...quiet, predawn hours of Dec. 7, 1941, the U.S.S. Ward, a 23-year-old, four-piper destroyer, rolling back to Pearl Harbor from a routine patrol, picked up a startling report from a minesweeper: a mysterious object, possibly a submarine, had been detected in the darkness to the west. From the skipper's cabin, Lieut. William W. Outerbridge, nervously proud of his first full command, hurried out to direct a search. Finding nothing, he gave the order to secure from general quarters, went back to sleep...
Sink or Swim. In the viscous gumbo, fighting was reduced to patrol actions. Off Leyte's western shore, Japanese reinforcement convoys appeared and were attacked by fighter bombers from Sverdrup's new strips. Some were burned and some were sunk. Thousands of Japanese troops on their way to reinforce the stubborn, holdout garrison at Ormoc died. How many thousands, no man knew, although the communiqués offered guesstimates in bold round numbers...
...Young Lieut. William Woodward Outerbridge, worrying about his first command, gave the orders which fired the first U.S. shot in the war. On patrol outside the harbor, in the murky dawn of Dec. 7, he sent his report: his ancient destroyer, the Ward, had shelled arid depth-charged a submarine. His superiors thought it was "impossible...