Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strip. The bomb doses were small (15 to 40 tons in two of four Army raids). Resistance was light: 20 Zeros appeared over Mili atoll, tried (and failed) to slap the raiders with anti-bomber bombs dropped from above in the German manner. In smaller force, Navy patrol bombers snooped the islands. But the blow that really caught the Japs in the Marshalls with their kimonos off, was a pile-driving carrier raid...
...480th were glad to get home. They had done much of the pioneering; they would not have to go back to sea. While they and many another outfit were at work, the U.S. Navy had asserted one of its favorite doctrines: that only Navymen should patrol the seas. In planes taken over from the Army, new Navy crews are now at work against German subs. The Army, which was on the job when the going was hottest, will hunt them no more...
...night last week, in rain hard-driven by an icy wind, a shipfitter, an insurance salesman, a machinist supervisor and a Boston Traveler pressman boarded a 50-ft. cruiser and purred out to patrol Boston Harbor. Their "duty" was the water off the busy Navy Yard. Aboard their cruiser they stood eight-hour watches and took turns at catching a little sleep. In the cold dawn they shucked their blue work clothes, sheepskin coats, stocking caps and went back to their civilian jobs...
They man the pleasure cruisers which have been turned over to the Coast Guard Auxiliary, fill out depleted crews of regular Coast Guard cutters, squeegee paint, scrub decks, inspect buoys, board incoming merchantmen and seal their radios, run signal lights, patrol docks and beaches. In their idle time between their twelve-hour-a-week duty and their regular civilian jobs, the hottest zealots study seamanship, gunnery and navigation...
After his latest triumphant patrol, Mush had two months' visit on "homeside" (Los Angeles), with his wife and his children, Douglas, 4, and Edwina, 2. Early this fall he returned to the Pacific and the perilous hunting grounds which U.S. submariners call the Empire...