Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another dark night Lieut. Ralph Brown led a patrol of six men with thermite grenades and wine bottles of gasoline to burn the fortified town jail. They turned the structure into a roaring inferno, but by morning the blaze had burned out, the stone walls were still standing, the Germans were back again...
...Nordics . . . invaded America's east coast. . . . That is how, one fine day, a Norwegian Storm Trooper came to be on the steps of the White House at the head of his patrol. He entered between mighty pillars into a large half-lit vestibule. A portrait of George Washington hung on the wall. A broad marble staircase led to the upper floors. On each landing hung a gigantic star-spangled banner. Then suddenly he stood in front of a glass door. The President's study! But . . . chairs were flung about . . . papers were strewn across the floor. . . . How quiet...
...served as a sergeant major through the Philippine Insurrection. Home from the wars, he prospected in the Klondike, worked on the Panama Canal, in 1915 settled down as a Connecticut power official. At 61 the old campaigner learned to fly, in '42 was on active anti submarine patrol duty off the New England coast. He died of a heart attack in Greenwich, Conn...
...Patrol Craft Escort: 180-foot convoy guardian, tonnage secret, cost about $1 million. PCEs bear such names as Hell Harvest, Hell for Hirohito...
...antisub vessels will have predominantly Negro crews. A destroyer escort will be manned by 160 Negroes and 44 whites, a patrol chaser by 52 Negroes and nine whites. The whites will hold billets requiring specialized training, will ail be replaced by Negroes as they qualify...