Word: patroling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nazi submarine was still a formidable menace. The Canadian destroyer Ottawa went down with her captain, four other officers and 107 men. German torpedoes had also bagged two other Canadian warships (a patrol vessel and a corvette) since Sept. 14. The U.S. Navy's Secretary Knox summarized the situation this week: "There can be no question but that today the submarine problem is the major problem confronting us-one which is closely tied in with that of an eventual second front in Europe . . . and with the supplying of Russia in order to keep her armies in the field...
...film opens with semi-travelogue shots of the serene little coral reef that is Midway, of the gulls, gonies and Marines that live there, passes on to the alarm from the lazing patrol planes at sea, watches the huge khaki Flying Fortresses trundle heavily off the runways, the men moving with the deceptive leisure of Americans-and then come the Japs...
Bitter-Enders. In The Bronx, John O'Hara and Thomas Reilly, practiced dips, were charged with pocket-picking in a patrol wagon en route to the police station...
...conversationally-how their six boats became an infuriating menace to Jap warships and transports, how they fought to keep them afloat even when hulls were ripped open by coral reefs, how their gas tanks were clogged with wax put in their gas by some unknown saboteur. Sent out on patrol from Bataan, to fight lone actions against enemy cruisers and destroyers, Squadron 3 sank "probably a hundred times [its] own combined tonnage in enemy warships...
...first Jap casualties was a four-motored patrol plane, shot down by a stub-winged Grumman Wildcat. From then on, the August sky was filled with U.S. planes and the bombers and fighters of the enemy, wheeling around each other in no-man's-cloudland while again the opposing surface fleets never once came in sight of each other on the broad ocean...