Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginian set off with an advance patrol. He called back: "You'll see me in Saint-Lô." Through all the fighting he had said his outfit would be the first in the town...
...outskirts of town, his patrol was pinned down by gun fire. The major was killed. But his patrol had accomplished their mission. Word went back to the division commander that the Germans were retiring. He sent up a volunteer force to enter Saint-Lô. Its men came up to the major's patrol and heard the story...
Before coming to the present tour of shore duty, Lt. Comdr. Havemeyer commanded a patrol craft and destroyer escort, with operations in both the Atlantic and Pacific...
...same, said Volf, holds true for drunks. He declared that he had found from careful observation that helpless drunks always walk east, fall down when they try to walk west. A drunk, Volf noted further, will resist entering a car or patrol wagon when it faces west but climb aboard willingly if it faces east. And he is much easier to lift to his feet if he faces east. Another useful tip: some drunks only fight facing eastward. Volf advice: "The fight may be avoided if the opponent will cause the intoxicant to face westward. This impels the intoxicant...
...last eight months, Sikorsky has produced 30 helicopters for the Materiel Command of the Army Air Forces. The ships have been tested in Burma, evacuating wounded from the jungles; in patrol work along the Atlantic coast; in Alaska...