Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What'll you have, boys?" Wandering about the jungle alone, Montgomery recently met a group of marines. Said he: "Aren't we pretty close to the front lines now, fellows?" Said a marine: "Front lines, hell. They're half a mile behind us. This is a patrol." Says Tiny Montgomery: "I ducked the bullets and watched them wipe out a machine-gun nest. I was glad to get back in one piece...
...trail of phosphorescence bubbled whitely across the black sea off Guadalcanal. A New Zealand patrol boat, spotting the glow in the night, changed her course, ran down the telltale trail and dropped a pattern of depth bombs...
Below the surface a Japanese submarine faltered. The patrol boat circled, dropped more charges. Hurt this time, the Jap came up. With its deck guns it blazed away furiously at its attacker. The patrol boat fired back, turned on her searchlight. The little New Zealander was only 150 feet long; nevertheless she pointed her bow at the sub and charged forward...
Japs began spilling out of the conning tower. The New Zealand gunners peppered them. The Jap commander toppled off the bridge. His men tried to shoot out the patrol boat's light, mortally wounded the seaman operating it. The two vessels crashed...
...mobile smoke-generator which vomits white clouds large enough to conceal whole cities has been developed by General Electric. The process is still secret. > Paper parachutes for loads up to 50 lb. are replacing expensive chutes of scarce silk and nylon. The Civil Air Patrol drops food, serum and other emergency supplies with tough, crepe-paper chutes made by Dennison Manufacturing Co. > Recent entrant in the unending race between projectiles and armor is a bullet to shoot holes in so-called bulletproof gas tanks. These tanks have rubber linings which close up holes made by ordinary bullets. The new projectile...