Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taste of their own mine and U-boat medicine. Six German troop transports went down. Cargo ships that spill Swedish iron ore and Finnish wood pulp into the Nazi war machine were being sunk. Trans-Baltic ferry service had been suspended. German Baltic ports were jammed with minesweepers, destroyers, patrol boats and anti-aircraft vessels...
...Coast Guard Auxiliary has enlisted some 5,000 yachts and 7,500 yachtsmen for patrol of waterfronts, other coastal duties...
...planes could deliver five whole streamlined divisions across the Atlantic in the same time required by 30 surface transports carrying 2,000 men each. And some 3,500 planes of types now in use (Boeing B-17 four-engine bombers, or Consolidated PBY-2 four-engine patrol bombers) could transfer a streamlined division from one coast to the other in one night. The problem is not whether such hitherto undreamed-of fleets are desirable. The problem is how they can be created...
...spite of U.S. and British destroyers, sub-chasers, corvettes, far-ranging aircraft, of small private boats on patrol duty, of R.A.F. bombing of submarine plants in Germany, Axis torpedoes were still blowing in cargo bottoms of the United Nations; 337 sinkings had been acknowledged by the U.S. Navy since Jan. 14. Nevertheless, the U.S. was learning things...
...flight over the northern Caribbean area, convinced startled British officials of Gough's complicity. But the slippery Gough was not easy to hook. He escaped. In the days of 17th-Century pirates he might well have outraced his pursuers to the nearby Republic of Honduras. But a Naval patrol plane overtook his boat, forced it to stop, and took over. It was believed the first time in history that an air crew became a prize crew. But it was not the last time, if Snoopers Hemingway and Jenkinson's 1940 warnings were to be reread, that...