Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason the United Nations often appear to be losing the war is their shortage of shipping. But in one important respect that shortage may soon mean little. The U.S., along with Canada, is perfecting a chain of Arctic and north Atlantic air bases. Already bombers and patrol planes can give convoys continuous air protection, all the way across the North Atlantic. U.S. fighters as well as bombers may soon be delivered to Europe...
Take-Off. The history of the Civilian Air Patrol was like that of Orphan Annie : indifference from well-fixed people ; danger from villains; and a steady series of hair breadth escapes from sudden death. CAP had been born out of wedlock: argument and tears had wangled it out of the Office of Civilian Defense with grudging Army consent. CAP was a hybrid : semimilitary, semi-civil...
Major General Follett Bradley, of the Air Force, Eastern Defense Command, made the announcement. Flyers of the Civil Air Patrol, doggedly buzzing away over miles on miles of sea wastes, had contributed to the sinking of some Axis submarines by tipping off bombers to their whereabouts...
...Civil Air Patrol had notched up many another service: in the Great Lakes region they reported ice breakups; in Illinois they towed targets for Army gunners. In Georgia they droned on patrol over swamps, looking for enemy agent skulduggery. In Nevada, with few airports, they began ground units. In Pennsylvania they were air couriers, and even carried light freight on short hops...
Then last Dec. 1 a World War I flyer, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, then OCD director, announced the birth of the Civil Air Patrol. The Army hailed CAP as an aid to national defense...