Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naval operations off Newfoundland in winter are difficult at best. But from the island, long-range submarines and cruising ships can keep an eye on Greenland, 950 miles away, and patrol the sea lanes from Europe to Montreal, Boston and New York City...
Antigua and St. Lucia, 200 miles apart, will provide stations from which the Navy can patrol the eastern entrances of the Caribbean. At Antigua the Navy will have the use of about three square miles on Parham Sound and also of a site on Crabs Peninsula across the harbor. St. Lucia, 2,600 miles west of Dakar and 1,150 miles from the Canal, will house a 120-acre seaplane base at Gros Islet Bay, and possibly other facilities not yet decided...
British Guiana is equidistant (1,450 miles) from the Canal and Natal, Brazil, hub port of the South Atlantic. There the U. S. Navy will build two air bases - a patrol plane squadron base and airdrome 25 miles up the Demerara River, a seaplane base near Suddie...
Next morning they discovered the warships were not British but the U. S. destroyers Plunkett, Gilmer and Broome, on neutrality patrol. They indignantly accused the U. S. of "hostile attitude," set up an injured howl that the destroyers had invaded Mexico's territorial waters. The Mexican Foreign Office took the matter in hand...
...Mexico called that incident officially closed, then decided the first one was just an unfortunate mistake by the Nazi seamen, closed it too. To the U. S. Navy all this diplomatic maneuvering was a lot of nonsense. Growled one sea dog: "What the hell do we have a neutrality patrol...