Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...technical sergeant who said he was Stanley Hawrylytz turned up on the first show with a tale of knocking off a igman Jap patrol on Kiska, for which (he said) he got a Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, a Purple Heart and a serious foot wound. He said his home was in Erie, Pa. He wanted a job in Alaska. He got an offer. U.S. Army records later disclosed that his right name was Harvilick, his home address was actually Springboro, Pa., there was no record of overseas service or citations. And there were, of course, no live Japs...
Trespassers in U.S. waters have become so scarce that the Navy is pulling down its picket fence. In the first broad demobilization of equipment since the war began, more than half the 2,200 fishing and pleasure craft converted for emergency antisub patrol early in the war have now been returned to their private owners...
...organized the Fifth District Shore Patrol, first separate, permanent unit of its kind, gave the new outfit blanket orders to clean up-fast. That is what the Patrol...
...Shore Patrol's efficiency is not Navy-bred. It was brought in with 300 tough, intelligent, hand-picked policemen, including four attorneys, Maryland's former hangman, New York patrolmen, detectives and constables, and highway cops from eastern and southern states. Fifteen of the 25 members of the Negro division are college graduates...
Hell-raising bluejackets grew to respect the Patrol, their officers to understand it. In its March 1943 report, the Izac subcommittee of the House Committee on Naval Affairs called the Patrol "one of the principal factors contributing to the improved vice conditions" in the area, recommended immediate expansion to its present size of 685 enlisted men and 18 commissioned officers. The Navy set up similar units in other congested posts...