Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battle & Retreat. Early in the week a U.S. Liberator bomber on ocean patrol had spotted the blockade runner. The ship must have been of immense value to the Germans; eleven destroyers put out from French bases to meet and escort it to port. The resultant fight involved a perfect cross-section of Allied operations: British warships and U.S., British, Canadian and Czechoslovak airmen. Aircraft dogged the incoming ship relentlessly; a Liberator manned by Czech airmen bombed it and left it sinking. By this time the German destroyers, some 200 miles to the east, had ventured too far. Next morning they...
Last week the R.A.F. Coastal Command and the U.S. Navy let out a story about one of their most important antisubmarine operations. Over the Bay of Biscay giant, white Liberators keep a constant, 24-hour patrol. They sweep back & forth in a perpetual search to nail subs before they spew out into mid-Atlantic from their pens on the French west coast. During most of the long hours the scanning eye sees only a wilderness...
...darkened farmhouse just north of San Vittore on the road to Rome, Germans were clinking glasses and singing the old songs of Christmas Eve. Outside, Lieut. Frank S. Greenlee of Nashville and a patrol of 15 slipped through the lines, crept close enough to identify their quarry. Then they let loose, killing many, taking the rest prisoner...
...outstanding flotilla is the one organized by Kenneth S. Magoon, ex-commodore of the Cottage Park Yacht Club, now a TR lieutenant (j.g.). Lieut. Magoon's flotilla has grown from 100 to 600 volunteers. Most of Magoon's flotilla patrol the Massachusetts beaches, stepping thoughtfully around lovers, eyes beamed seaward for flares, boats in distress, enemy submarines. Chunky, energetic Lieut. Magoon resents the intrusion of his State St. importing business on the long hours he devotes...
...long ago a Boston patrol, made up of a physician, a druggist, a bookseller and an undertaker, spotted a fire in the coal docks, fought the blaze until the firemen arrived, probably saved the Boston waterfront from a major disaster...