Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret, others are merely the old tactics of defense brushed up by experience or bolstered with stronger weapons. These include : 1) more escort ships and planes for convoys; 2) reorganized defenses and new defenses set up at strategic shore and island points; 3) a newly developed long-distance aerial patrol; 4) secret anti-submarine devices; 5) the strategic bombing of submarine bases, repair docks and factories...
...later patrol Major Ferguson wiped out four Japs, his servant Peter Dorren seven. They came into a village at dawn and saw four men sitting around a fire as though playing bridge. The Major walked over and said hello. When one of them turned, he saw they were Japs. "From that moment," he said, "I lost all fear of the Japanese. There was stark terror in their faces. I fumbled for the pin of my grenade, tossed it into the fire and ducked. Peter's work was more complicated, but as effective...
...maimed, two platoons are pitted against each other-the members of one platoon fighting in undershirts to distinguish them from their opponents. In reconnaissance fighting, a squad, hands in gloves, is sent out on reconnaissance. Somewhere along the way two other squads, armed with gloves, ambush the patrol...
...time one side or the other had managed to think of one more démarche, one more protocol, one more possible avenue of negotiation. Even the cutting off of food supplies had failed to shake Admiral Robert. For 35 months he had forced the U.S. to keep vigilant patrol over his domain. The 105 U.S. planes which had failed to reach France in 1940 had long since rusted into disuse; the aircraft carrier Béarn, the cruiser Emile Berlin and 140,000 tons of merchant shipping-which the United Nations could well use-rode listlessly at anchor, fouled...
While the "shore patrol boys" were working themselves into a dither over the situation. I arrived at a marvelous but simple conclusion--why not turn the Common into one big victory garden? This would certainly help the food situation in Boston and it would also remedy the aforementioned condition. But immediately the objection would be raised that it would only make it harder for the "shore patrol boys" to find people between the corn stalks or the cabbages. However, it would be necessary to water the garden at some time, and the solution might be to water it all night...