Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soft-spoken Burt Klakring, the man who watched a horse race on the Japanese seacoast through his periscope. He is also known in the Navy as an expert pianist, was described in the Lucky Bag the year he was graduated from Annapolis as "super-sentimental." On a single patrol, mild-mannered, sentimental Commander Klakring sank 70,000 tons...
...story is a combination of a lot of old ones. Bogart, a tank commander, is separated from the rest of the army in good lost-patrol tradition. In trying to catch up with the retreating British forces, he picks up a motley assortment of stragglers: a few Englishmen, a Free Frenchman, a Sudanese rifleman (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), and a German pilot shot down by the tank's accurate fire...
...Japanese consider that the main function of the Navy, besides defending the home islands, is to pave and patrol safe sea roads to the Empire's outposts. In the realm of strategy the Japanese Navy is the Army's handmaiden. The Navy commits its ships for the most part in direct support of land operations and supply lines...
...British Naval force on patrol ran afoul of a well-protected German convoy in the English Channel last week. The 5,450-ton British cruiser Charybdis was sunk by torpedoes and H.M. destroyer Limbourne, also torpedoed, was later abandoned and sunk by the British. The Germans seemingly got away scot-free in the first major naval engagement in the Channel since the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen fled from Brest past Dover's white cliffs...
...clear gain for the Allies is the speedy but largely untried Italian fleet. Some 100 interned war vessels will now be available for patrol duty, if fuel can be supplied. Reportedly royalist to the core, the Italian Navy would probably be kept in the Mediterranean. But at least the ships would release U.S. and British units for service elsewhere...