Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This made the good burghers of Birmingham glow. But before he had finished, Neville Chamberlain had struck pride in the hearts of many another Briton. First of all he praised Britain's sea heroes, the patient men on patrol, riskers in convoy, victors at the River Plate, raiders of the Altmark. Warmly he lauded the Air Force; women who have lost their loves and sons, who fight with knitting needles and save every scrap; eager men who could not wait to be drafted; civil servants burning themselves and midnight oil; employers taking on unfamiliar chores; laborers sweeping away...
...French Poilus 36-to-3 at rugby. At the stalemated fighting front, bright skies encouraged reconnaissance flights by both sides, to see what new dispositions the enemy had made during weeks of freeze and fog. For the troops in outpost zones ahead of the Maginot Line and Westwall, patrol duty became more frequent and arduous, first stations busier...
That Great Britain's North Sea patrol let her pass was not surprising. That Germany let her go was. For Allied commerce leans heavily on neutral shipping, and the Norwegian-flag Skandinavia (which will run from the Gulf to South America) will free replacements for some of the 100,000 tons of tankers the Germans have sunk to date. Probable explanation: confabs between Texas Corp.'s Board Chairman "Cap" Torkild Rieber and the German Admiralty...
...Norway. The Altmark had not proceeded more than 100 miles south of Bergen, closely hugging the craggy, fjord-bitten coast, before three big British reconnaissance planes swooped low over her. Soon after, with express Admiralty orders to do so, into Norwegian waters from their stations on North Sea patrol raced a British cruiser and five destroyers. The destroyer Intrepid halted the Altmark, but while Captain Philip Louis Vian of the senior destroyer Cossack had words with the Norwegian gunboat's commander, the Altmark slid into Joesing Fjord, a deep, narrow, dead-end harbor five miles long. Another Norwegian gunboat...
Forney ran outside. The face of the man in the cab was contorted, and he was groaning, writhing. Forney found a patrol man, but he advised Forney to drive to a police station. Forney did. The desk lieutenant called an ambulance. By the time it arrived, the man in the cab was dead...