Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Hearst GHQ. Then call Hearst, demanded the marines, and "we'd like to hear the call." Wren tried, but got only as far as the No. 1 secretary at San Simeon ("Mr. Hearst is too busy to be disturbed"). In the midst of these negotiations, Navy shore patrol men and a police riot squad clumped up the stairs, then went away again, assured that the marines had the situation well in hand...
Twenty-five-year-old Hachiya, who had fought at Kwajalein and Eniwetok, finally landed on Leyte with the 7th Division. On Dec. 30, when a man was needed to cross a valley under fire and scout Japanese positions, Hachiya volunteered. He had worked out ahead of his protecting patrol, when he suddenly staggered with a sniper's bullet in his belly. He emptied his rifle at the enemy, and crawled back to the U. S. lines, gave his scout's report. Soon after, Private Hachiya died...
Lieut. Will Rogers Jr., son of the late great humorist, and a Congressman from California who quit politics for war, was promoted to first lieutenant and awarded the Bronze Star for "heroism" in leading a patrol during the Battle of the Bulge...
Bill Edwards, who left Hayti, Mo. (pop. 2,628) to fight in Europe, was on a night patrol in Huertgen Forest when a mine blew his foot off. He lay where he had fallen, keeping his mouth shut so as not to betray his comrades to German infantrymen near by. Artillery shells whistled overhead in a constant barrage. A shell fragment struck his good...
...German armored-force corporal nabbed by a U.S. 1st Division patrol hastened to tell his captors that he was no ordinary prisoner. He was, in fact, a soothsayer, scion of a long line of Bavarian seers...