Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut, (j.g.) Franklin Jr., 28, served aboard a destroyer with the North Atlantic Patrol on convoy duty, was in London on Navy business at last official reports in June...
...Balchen and Parunak rested from this exploit, an Army patrol plane, with two men aboard, flopped down in a glacier canyon. One man was badly injured; there was no time for a two weeks' overland rescue. Four miles away was a lake. Its milky waters concealed rocks that could spell doom for a landing plane, but Pilot Parunak set his flying boat down, somehow, anyway. While Balchen and his rescue party trudged to the stranded patrol plane, Pilot Parunak sat up all night kicking icebergs away from his PBY. After this rescue, Parunak and Balchen gave themselves a name...
...persistently fail to abide by the rules are answerable to House authorities. Under this new system, not only has enforcement of the regulations become easier and more efficient, but offenders have decreased in number, giving considerable advantages over the old system of only two students on night patrol for the whole House...
...chief. "Monk" Hunter loves fighter planes, even though he spent nine months in a hospital when one fell apart in a test at 15,000 feet. He has sported his militarissimous mustache since World War I when he became an eight-plane ace, was continually cited for ferocity: "On patrol he encountered six monoplanes. He immediately attacked...
Protective equipment was moving steadily if slowly into cities in the "target areas." Auxiliary firemen were training. Test air-raid alarms were increasing. The Civil Air Patrol, of which Landis is particularly proud, was doing a bang-up job, flying a half million miles a week on courier and scouting work, though Army censorship kept its light under a bushel...