Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...altogether possible that U.S. naval vessels were within hearing of the Hood's last blast. The U.S. Atlantic Fleet keeps a regular (although, in those northern waters, a scattered) patrol on behalf of the British. It was even possible (though unlikely) that some patrolling U.S. ship tipped off the British to the Nazi rovers' whereabouts. Certainly, if the U.S. patrol had spotted the Bismarck and her escorts beforehand, the tip-off would have been quickly given-that is what the U.S. patrol...
Wherever he was, Admiral King was in dangerous waters. If there was any doubt about the danger, the Nazis' Grand Admiral Erich Raeder in Berlin removed it when he defied Ernie King's fleet to pass from patrol to all-out convoy, and said: "Nobody can expect a German warship to look on while an American warship communicates the position of a German man-of-war to the British Admiralty. Such procedure must be regarded...
During the Civil War, did the North protest against the renowned patrol work of the Alabama, in the lend-lease arrangement between the South and the British? If so, was Lincoln a Copperhead...
...Britons believe that with 200 U.S. heavy bombers, the threat to vital British shipping could be practically eliminated. Britons are enthusiastic over U.S. patrol and heavy bombers, find U.S. pursuit planes inferior to their own, which fly higher, can get on top the enemy. But U.S. planes are now being tested in action on a big scale in Syria...
...Britain needs ships urgently, counts on the recently extended U.S. patrol system (though opinion is divided on the most effective method of protecting British ships). Even the most savagely bombed of British ports are still...