Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from European markets by World War II. But most of the talk naturally concerned Japan. Admiral Thomas Charles Hart, Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet, had decided to evacuate 2,000 Navy wives from the Philippines. He had said, diplomatically, that their husbands would be on patrol duty a great deal. And jittery gossip went around Manila concerning the U. S. Army court-martial of brown, good-looking little Rufo Romero...
From at least two of its eight new base sites (Newfoundland & Bermuda) last week long-range patrol planes joined the U. S. Navy's patrol force guarding the Atlantic approaches to the U. S. and Canada. Just eleven weeks before the Navy had been promised the new bases from Great Britain in trade for 50 overage destroyers. By last week it was not only using two of them but also had reached agreement with Britain upon the exact sites for U. S. land plane, seaplane and naval bases on all but one of the New World islands and continental...
...motor torpedo boats, getting a sea test in rough water. Returning to the Brooklyn Navy Yard at nightfall each day with his five waterbugs, handsome Lieut. Earl Stevens Caldwell, youngest (and lowest-ranking) squadron commander in the Navy, was able to put down a favorable report. The new PTs (patrol torpedo boats) were as seaworthy as the designer of their prototype, famed Britisher Hubert Scott-Paine, had said they were. In 15-ft. waves they charged along at 40 knots, in smooth seas smashed along at better than 52 knots (60 m.p.h.). Lieut. Caldwell could also report that when...
Flagship of the squadron will be the PT-10. Like others of its class, PT-10 is essentially for offshore patrol. She carries 3,000 miles of cruising in her gasoline tanks, could cross the Atlantic if need be. But if they ever do go to war, best bet is that the Navy's new boats will cross the ocean on the decks of battleships or cruisers, or be shipped across the continent on flatcars...
ROME--The 25-hour Italian air patrol over the straits of Sicily was credited tonight with capturing Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd, the highest ranking British officer taken prisoner...