Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some of them on the stages of movie houses), beaten and then arrested by the Los Angeles police for "vagrancy" and "rioting." (The police practice was to accompany the caravans in police cars, watch the beatings and then jail the victims. Their orders apparently were to let the Shore Patrol and the Military Police handle the rioting sailors. The service police were futile.) But now the rioting seemed to be diminishing. The zoot-suiters lay low, the sailors and soldiers had seemingly wreaked sufficient revenge for the several occasions when zoot-hoodlums had attacked and robbed them...
Legends piled up fast. One told of a sea-crashed pilot who was found in his little rubber boat, paddling hotly with his bare hands toward Sikaiana and fighting off rescuers. Another related that a certain patrol-plane crew, overcome by tales of beauty and hospitality, got off course somehow and had to sit down for repairs at, of all places, Sikaiana. Then airmen of a rival service learned what had happened...
Members of this snake patrol, who set out to collect venom for serum-making for the South African Institute of Medical Research, are Corporals F. Walsey and M. J. Clemence and Private L. L. Lear. In the past 15 months they have captured close to a thousand of Africa's deadliest snakes...
Once captured, the snakes are taken to patrol headquarters at Komati Poort, where they are forcibly fed with meat and egg flip, milked of their venom at intervals...
...Sunk three subs, a patrol boat and (with planes from another carrier) sunk four aircraft carriers and three destroyers...