Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day a patrol came by, read the telltale marks, tracked the natives, caught up with the white man, took him to court. Said the magistrate: "Coldblooded cruelty...
...Busy Days. On Sept. 13, near Altavilla, on the Salerno front, Kelly volunteered for a patrol assigned to wipe out enemy machine-gun positions. Said Kelly...
Lieut. Bill Morris and his men were driven from a gully. Too late, Morris remembered that he had left behind his pack with a fruit cake just received from his mother. Next night he led a patrol back to the gully, found the fruit cake, still uncut, lugged...
Missing in Action. Sometimes patrols never returned. A sergeant nicknamed "Knobby," with a reputation for taking prisoners, led one eleven-man patrol out to capture a house. Behind and out of sight another patrol waited for the signal to join the first. The signal never came. No shots were fired, no sound heard. Knobby and his men, all veterans of 25 months overseas, simply disappeared, swallowed up in the dark ruins...
Submarines themselves are now equipped with heavier anti-aircraft guns to protect them from the patrol planes, which the men mortally hate & fear. They carry medical officers, have new-model rubber escape boats. Like U.S. subs, they stock the best food their country can provide- chicken, wine, oranges, real butter, good meat...