Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East the Battle opened with counterparts of the precautions at Oran and Gibraltar. The British hastily grabbed a French battleship, four cruisers and smaller vessels in Alexandria, and set up a patrol guarding the Suez Canal...
...ocean navy, complete with the swarms of auxiliaries and little boats (like Patrol Craft) that it will need for the full life at sea, is being built in 72 private yards and eleven Navy yards, from Bath, Me. to Cavite, P. I. Most of the big ships (17 battleships, twelve carriers, 54 cruisers) are being built on the Atlantic coast, but 204 destroyers are parceled out all over the place-to such firms as Gulf Shipbuilding Corp. of Chickasaw, Ala., Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Consolidated Steel Corp. at Orange, Tex. Exclusive of combat types, Chairman Vinson's summary listed...
...many a landlubber it has long seemed odd that, with a war going on in Europe, the Atlantic is policed only by a U. S. Naval Squadron, incongruously called the Atlantic Patrol Force. After Feb. 1 that Patrol Force will be the Atlantic Fleet. Its present commander, frosty-eyed Rear Admiral Ernest Joseph King (who is also a naval aviator) will take his orders direct from Chief of Naval Operations Harold Raynsford Stark in Washington. King can logically expect soon to get four-star rank...
...Tobruch's own air base of El Adem, constructed at enormous expense for a permanent airdrome, one British mechanized patrol counted the charred fuselages of 40 planes, burned and twisted by R. A. F. bombs. The runways were pitted with a lacework of craters. The hangars and machine shops were battered to rubble. The plush officers' quarters, completed down to tile bathrooms, were sagging ruins. At El Gubbi the story was the same. At El Gazála they found 35 more wrecked planes. The Italians had abandoned their air bases as far west...
...little lifetime that is a flight had begun at 6:30 a.m., in San Diego. If all went well it would end seven hours later at Corpus Christi, on the Gulf of Mexico, 1,200 miles across the plains and mountains of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas. Other Navy patrol bombers of the same type (Consolidated PBY) had made so many nonstop hops of 2,500 and 3,000 miles that this delivery flight from the factory was a routine matter. The ship, with its hull built only for landing on water, was now rushing over a land where Spanish...