Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Colonel Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 42, who resigned his Senate seat last February to do some real fighting overseas, captured a four-man Nazi patrol singlehanded. The grandson of famed post-War I Isolationist Senator Henry Cabot Lodge let his jeep-driver tell the tale: "Colonel Lodge . . . had spotted the Germans a long way off. When we got close to them, Colonel Lodge pulled out a pistol, leaped out of the jeep, and the prisoners threw their hands...
...small U.S. forces entered Alsace (then German territory) six months before the Armistice, were held just over the border; the Russians got as far as East Prussia in 1914; in 1939 a French patrol crossed the German border, crossed right back again...
...summer of 1862, a Union cavalry patrol galloping by the deserted station of Beaver Dam, Va. almost rode down a meek-looking little Confederate scout day dreaming in the sun. In his haversack they found a single, unimportant-looking letter and a newly-published copy of Napoleon's Maxims of War. Unimpressed, they read and destroyed the letter, sent the scout off to jail in Washington...
...they paid more attention to their find, the Union patrol might have shortened the Civil War by several months. They might also have halted one of the most colorful military careers in U.S. history. The dreamer they captured, and soon exchanged for a Union soldier, was John Singleton Mosby, a 28-year-old Virginia lawyer and natural-born guerrilla...
Killed In Action. Marine Corps Sergeant Peter Brook Saltonstall, 23, son of Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Salton stall; while leading a patrol in the jungles of northern Guam. Peter raised his father's share of his Marine Corps pay from $25 to $50 last year. The day after he got the news of Peter's death, Governor Salton stall spoke at a Boston memorial service for Marine Aviator Lieut. Robert M. Hanson, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor...