Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British plane doggedly making the rounds of patrol off Iceland in 1941 sighted an enemy submarine. The plane made a run, dropped depth charges, circled to watch results. Suddenly the submarine surfaced and to the flyer's surprise quickly ran up a white flag (later found to be the commander's shirt). The U-570 was boarded by the British, found virtually undamaged...
...Into the valley of Death ... no, no, no! You'll have to wait for the official communique before you mension where the figting is takeing place. You could mension there was patrol activity in certin areas, but you're not allowed to state the actuel place.' (Slash...
...nightfall the Bürgermeister had quietly assembled 25 middle-aged police recruits who will be allowed to patrol the streets wearing arm bands. Their first task: rounding up armed Nazi youths who snipe at Allied soldiers...
After dark the 35th's volunteer "baby patrol"-a French captain, an American officer and ten G.I.s-slipped across the line, sloshed across 1,000 yards of rainswept marsh, crept into the house...
Then there was trouble. The nervous Germans heard noises, opened up on the marsh with artillery and mortar fire. The baby patrol did not dawdle: it passed its youngsters across a creek, finally crossed the line and bundled them into trucks headed for Nancy and proper shelter. The expedition had had rare good luck. No one, soldier or child, was so much as scratched...