Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a bystander asked "What's going on?" a policeman replied, "These kids are going to beat up those niggers." But the advancing column hesitated, began to fall back. Soon patrol cars of the metropolitan district police arrived and helped break the mob into smaller groups. A few "dele gates" fired a salvo of rocks, breaking a police car window. Small squads raced through back alleys hunting for Negroes. By morning, Cambridge had subsided into uneasy peace...
...Charleston. He had sunned himself on the pier that juts out into the brackish waters of Winyah Bay. He had cast for bass in plantation ponds, gone crabbing and snagged eels from the pier, fished up & down the Black and Waccamaw Rivers on a 54-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat. Under a canopy of blimps and patrol planes, he had trolled for bluefish and bonito 15 miles out in the Atlantic. (He was almost caught at sea in a thunderstorm kicked up by a tornado that killed 38 people farther west...
...attacks. "In the months and years which followed the rape of Nanking, ten million Chinese had been killed, fifty million driven west, more than a hundred put in subjection under puppet regimes. . . . For endless miles [Shanghai's] sidewalks be came the bedroom of a million refugees." A "baby patrol" went the rounds each morning, piling up mounds of dead children "like stacks of firewood...
...Catalina patrol bombers had been circling for hours over a pair of bright yellow rafts in the freezing, gale-whipped sea 90 miles off Attu. On the rafts were six young naval airmen who had crashed. It was dusk and still no surface craft had answered radio calls for help. Now the fuel was beginning to run low in the Catalina's tanks...
Cavite was destroyed. Left without a base within 1,500 miles, Hart withdrew all of his puny fleet except a few auxiliaries, PTs, submarines. His wing of Catalina patrol boats disintegrated in glory. In northern Luzon, unhampered by warships or aircraft, waves of Japanese infantrymen poured ashore...