Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began when Columnists Joseph Alsop & Robert Kintner reported last month that a U.S. destroyer on patrol duty had tossed three depth charges at a German submarine. At a press conference one day last week, a reporter asked Colonel Knox whether the Navy's new policy meant that if U.S. ships ran afoul of Nazis between the U.S. and Iceland they would start shooting. For reply, the Secretary quoted Franklin Roosevelt's words: "I have . . . issued orders . . . that all necessary steps be taken...
...tangent to the Arctic Circle, its air is warmed by the Gulf Stream, its houses by water piped from its many hot springs. The best natural element of defense is Lake Thingvalla, which, because it is fed by these hot springs, never freezes, and is therefore ideal for flying patrol boats. Otherwise the advantages of the natural defenses are offset by the scarcity of roads and materiel-scarcities which the Yanks knew their Army would not be able to alleviate too soon...
...Malemi in Crete, where he was stationed, "we were rarely in a position to put more than two aircraft into the air for a continuous patrol during daylight hours." The anti-aircraft guns protecting the airport were without protection themselves, were quickly put out of action by Stukas...
This was the Eagles' first really large-scale job-though they had had weeks of patrol action.* They did their job really well. Attacked by several Messerschmitts, they shot down three, damaged two others. The youngest of them all, Gregory Augustus Daymond, 20, a Montana-born commercial pilot who once flew in South Africa for an ice-cream king, bagged one. At short range he shot away a " 'schmitter's" aileron, and the plane lurched and floated down so awkwardly that Daymond "didn't wait to see what happened because I was quite satisfied...
...With Nazi attacks at sea endangering the whole program, the President did all but one of these things: 1. Proclaimed the right of U.S. naval vessels to patrol the seven seas...