Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada's Air Minister C. G. Power announced four recent attacks by R.C.A.F. patrol planes on Axis U-boats close to Canadian shores. Said he: "There seems little doubt that enemy submarines will return in force to this side of the Atlantic with the coming of warmer weather...
Until someone turns up with a better weather yarn, airmen of the Aleutians forces will stick to Hannibal, the hitchhiking sea gull. Hannibal, the story goes, turned up on the wing of a Navy Catalina patrol boat one day when it was feeling its way, barely above the sea, in a pea-soup fog. The pilot decided that if the weather was too thick for Hannibal it was too thick for a PBY, too. He landed. As the plane rippled to a stop, Hannibal took off, soared to a full-stall landing, and swam off into...
...storm was rising over New Guinea. One day last week, through a cloud slit in the turbulent sky, a heavy-bellied Liberator (6-24) spied something to break the monotony of its patrol: 14 leaden ships upon a leaden ocean...
...Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, onetime superintendent of New Jersey State Police when the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped and murdered, is trying to improve Persia's rural police, the undisciplined, isolated officers who patrol villages and outlying districts...
...Zealander backed away, guns still blazing. Jap soldiers with full packs poured out of the conning tower and tried frantically to unleash life rafts. Again the patrol boat rammed, sheering off one of the sub's hydroplanes. And once again-said the skipper: "This time we climbed clear over her top and rode her piggyback." They got off by giving the engines full astern...