Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday was not quite such a success from my point of view, as on our third patrol I lost my aircraft. We were at about 21,000 ft. when we got involved with a squadron of Me. 109s...
...Three of these boats, said the Baltimore Sun this week, have already been sold by Pan American to Britain for long-range patrol flights over the North Atlantic...
...lest Nazi airmen bomb George VI while the King was reading his scheduled Christmas broadcast. This year British Broadcasting Corp. titled its annual program Christmas Under Fire, scheduled Welsh workers singing in a factory, an Army choir in the Holy Land and a broadcast from an R. A. F. patrol plane over the Channel-especially topical because many Britons last week were saying "It would be just like that bloody Hitler to try his invasion on Christmas."* From amid the rubble and ruin of Coventry a broadcast was planned of Holy Communion in the 600-year-old crypt...
...Ping-Pong. Venereal infection during World War I cost the Army 6,500,000 man-days (time lost in hospitals). Military police patrol towns as best they can, mark the most putrid spots "out of bounds." Military medicos provide soldiers with oral caution beforehand, treatment afterward, encourage local authorities to provide free prophylaxis stations. Army (and Navy) doctors generally prefer controlled segregation, covertly discourage the more extreme efforts of such agencies as the American Social Hygiene Association to abolish prostitution by legal action. Theory (which the Association disputes): when the business scatters, disease increases. Last week the Association proposed that...
...ORLEANS-An American destroyer, the U.S. MacLeish of the neutrality patrol, witnessed the capture and destruction of the German blockade runner, the tanker Rhein, in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, it was disclosed tonight...