Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning was ever more crowded with errors than that sunny dawn of Dec. 7. There was no reconnaissance patrol in the sky. Planes were huddled together-the better to be guarded from sabotage but the more convenient for enemy bombing. The aircraft warning system had been shut down, according to orders...
...attack on Oahu a suspicious object was sighted in the prohibited areas off Pearl Harbor at 6:30 a.m. Between 6:33 and 6:45 this object, which was a small submarine, was attacked and sunk by the concerted action of a naval patrol plane and the U.S.S. Ward. A report of this action by the Ward reached the Naval Base watch officer at 7:12 a.m., who notified his Chief of Staff...
Many a U.S. citizen has gambled, guzzled, bought souvenirs and knickknacks at Tijuana, Agua Caliente, Ensenada. Few have braved the one lumpy, unpaved road that reaches down to Baja California's tip. It was to patrol this area that President Avila Camacho obligingly sent troops to Baja California. Because the peninsula is inaccessible even from Mexico, he got permission to transport his soldiers by rail through Arizona and California (TIME...
Under his command last week General Cárdenas had several squadrons of Mexico's small air force, some armed Coast Guard cutters, a few seasoned troops. They can patrol the peninsula, but are hardly numerous enough to defend it. And they have other jobs: widening and improving the road, laying out airports, installing radio stations, digging wells...
...Iturbi, 46, pianist-conductor, private pilot, enlisted in OCD's Civil Air Patrol, to help do ferrying work, eagle-eye the coast. Spanish-born Iturbi took out his first U.S. citizenship papers last August...