Word: patrolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heels of this Communist setback last week came another face-loser for the Reds. Two of eight MIG planes that at tacked a U.S. patrol plane and its escort over the Yellow Sea were splashed by U.S. Sabres, and the rest were routed...
...University Police will send five men to patrol the Smoker, "in case some outsiders decide to make trouble," Matthew J. Toohy, University Police Chief, said. The University Police will also not move to prevent smoking in Memorial Hall, or serving beer to minors...
...Hong Kong Vice Admiral Alfred Melville Pride, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, and Rear Admiral Frederick Norman Kivette, commander of the fleet's Formosa patrol, were enjoying a routine leave last week for "rest and recuperation." With their wives, they were off on a pleasant round of shopping and social events. While the admirals shopped and sipped, the Chinese Communists were shooting their way to within hailing distance of the Seventh Fleet. Boldly, the Reds crushed all Nationalist Chinese opposition on Yikiang Islet, 250 miles northwest of Formosa, then poised for an attack on the Tachen Islands eight...
...observers-in the Yikiang garrison had no air or sea protection. They had been repeatedly shelled from Communist-held Toumen, six miles away. At mid-morning on the day of the assault, the Reds began shelling the tiny island from two destroyers, four gunboats and a swarm of patrol boats. At noon 60 Red planes-Russian-built light bombers and fighter-bombers, with MIG jets for top cover-began plastering the Nationalists with 500-lb. bombs. Under this rain of fire, the garrison clung to its burrows; while they were holed up, the invaders came ashore from a swarm...
Peru's President Manuel Odría, infuriated, shook up his armed forces. Planes and patrol vessels captured four catchers after machine-gunning two of them, and other aircraft forced the fleet's 13,000-ton factory-ship into a Peruvian port after dropping two bombs close aboard. The staggering fine followed...