Word: patroller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Life for Hovercraft Roaring along on a cushion of air and traveling with equal facility over land, ice or water, large and expensive Hovercraft have proved successful as ferries across the English Channel, cargo carriers in the Arctic, and patrol vehicles on Vietnamese rivers. In the past few years, Canadian and U.S. companies have also begun manufacturing smaller air-cushion vehicles and have sold several hundred to private buyers at prices between $3,500 and $4,000. Now a Canadian firm has raised the specter of a noisy Hovercraft in every garage. Ottawa's MHV Ltd. will soon begin...
...That big fin and so much rudder contribute to stability and control." The plane was so bulky that he found that it seemed to dwarf the runway. Landing, he reported, was "like training for carrier landings." When he taxied back to the hangar, the feeling was "like docking a patrol boat?you've got to sail it in, and very carefully...
After graduating summa cum laude from Harvard in 1943, Blum served on Navy patrol craft in the Pacific during World War II. He then returned to Harvard to earn...
...Hitler's Last Great Gamble" [Dec. 19]: Any member of the U.S. Army's 28th Infantry stationed near the Our River separating northeastern Luxembourg from Germany who went on a reconnaissance patrol or was at a forward post during the three days preceding the attack knew that something big was brewing. For eight hours preceding the attack, the skies over the river were illuminated by giant searchlights enabling tanks and troops to assemble and cross the river -and all this was dutifully reported back to headquarters by us "dogfaces." U.S. Intelligence wasn't unaware. They either underestimated...
...Draper, 19, was killed in an ambush while leading his squad on a road sweep. King, 21, died less than a week after reaching Viet Nam. Whitmer, 21, was killed on a patrol. West, 19, was shot near Quang Nam while serving with a landing team. Moncayo, 22, was part of an entire platoon wiped out by the enemy near Quang Tri. Garcia, 22, had volunteered to lead an unscheduled patrol in Quang Nam province when he was struck down by a booby trap...