Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic Patrol is beginning to help the British, though the rate of sinkings is still serious...
...Crew members of the 125-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat General Greene, home at Woods Hole, Mass, from patrol off Greenland, reported that the ship had been too close for comfort to the battle between the Hood and the Bismarck. While attacking planes roared overhead in the fog, the reverberations of the big guns shook the General Greene, and "some of the shells came mighty near our starboard side...
...Columnists Alsop & Kintner (see p. 67) published a widely current story: that last month a U.S. destroyer on Atlantic patrol, picking up survivors from a British vessel, was approached by a German submarine, let go three depth charges. Said the columnists: "Although the President is waiting for the Germans to shoot first . . . there has been shooting already. . . . The interest of the Germans is to avoid ... an incident. It is perfectly possible that the submarine was in fact sunk, and that the Germans have suppressed all public complaint. . . . The Navy ... is fully ready to act. ... It is far from improbable that...
...will patrol the North and South Atlantic, add more ships and planes to the patrol, and warn of the presence of attacking raiders "on the sea, under the sea and above...
...Lovett got his wings during World War I. He left Yale at 21, flew for the U.S. Navy in North Sea patrol and bombing squadrons. Young and untried though he then was, he had the same quality of quiet, intense persistence which is his administrative hallmark today...