Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Selection of personnel for service with mountain forces for the United States Army, suspended July 8, has been resumed, Elliot Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Burean announced Friday. The announcement came originally from the National Ski Patrol System, official agency for recommending men for this branch of the service...
...wish to volunteer for assignment to the mountain troops should submit questionnaires to the National Ski Patrol before enlisting in order to obtain the War Department's authorization for specific enlistment in a mountain unit. Those entering through the Selective Service System should submit their Ski Patrol questionnaire as far in advance as possible, so that an order may be sent to the inductee's reception center authorizing his transfer to the Mountain Training Center...
...pilots winging over the head-hunter-inhabited Naga Hills on a routine patrol flight toward Burma were the first to spot the Japanese attack force heading into India. A few Jap planes were drawn into battle, but most of them roared on toward the Assam terminus of the aerial Burma Road...
Army & Navy patrol planes soared over the blue waters, looking for the plane's wreckage and, more hopefully, for yellow rubber life rafts which might be carrying Rickenbacker, his aides and crew. But in Honolulu, Army GHQ was gloomy...
Some of the Wasp's planes were up on patrol, and their pilots, coming in, saw their floating landing field being consumed. One of them flew over the flagship at 3:36 and dropped this message: Wasp burning fiercely forward of island. 10° list to starboard (guess). 100 men or more aft on ft. deck. Destroyer close aboard. Eight Wasp planes due land 16:20. Wasp dead in water or just barely backing down. Ammunition on deck exploding...