Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elected Friday evening to lead the Flying Club into active participation in the war program, William Woodward, Jr. '43, of Eliot House, announced that members of the Club would soon be piloting planes in the Civil Air Patrol...
Where the slim wahine (Hawaiian women) once strolled along the beach at Waikiki, barbed wire is looped in crazy, glistening coils. Soldiers with naked bayonets patrol the docks. Parks and schoolyards are scarred with fresh-dug trenches. Howitzers hide in the cane fields. Men sleep by their guns on the beach and in caves hollowed out of the mountains...
...Havre on the French coast. It is well known that the British have an effective short-wave device for locating planes at night or in clouds. Less well known is the fact that the Germans have a locator equally effective. The German device worked perfectly on the U.S. Catalina patrol bomber which spotted the Bismarck last May: the bomber had been followed through the clouds by radio detection from the German battleship, and the instant the plane appeared it got such a hail of ack-ack fire that it had to retreat...
...duties of the hundreds of air raid wardens detailed to patrol Cambridge's streets this evening will be twofold. First, they are charged with the responsibility of preventing panic, and, second, they are to see that all lights are extinguished as promptly as possible. In connection with the latter task, it was announced that smoking or lighting matches outdoors during the blackout is expressly forbidden...
...intelligent candidate for the Air Force, of being kind to his wife and child. The magistrate postponed the hearing until next month to let things quiet down, and handsome Frederick Cummings went to a cell. Once more, in the gloom around Piccadilly Circus, the streetwalkers took up their patrol...