Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wreathed Grimsby on the North Sea, where British fishermen now don the greasy dungarees of the Royal Navy to go fishing for mine and submarine, Writer A. J. Liebling of The New Yorker found British character wondrously salted away in the diary of a patrol-boat captain. The captain was dead: he had "copped it in a fight with some motor torpedo boats. A one-pound shell took half of his head off." But he had left his immortally mortal diary behind...
...fashion glued-wood planes at its Maryland factory, where the aircraft industry's first women guards patrol the production lines, Fairchild puts the almost paper-thin veneers under heat and pressure in steel cylinders. Baked and pressed into shape, they are free of the rivet-bumps on aluminum alloy planes, do not wrinkle, as metal does, under the impact of gusts...
Immobilized: the powerful old 22,146-ton aircraft carrier Beam; the 5,886-ton cruiser Emile Bertin; the 6,496-ton cruiser Jeanne D'Arc, at Guadeloupe; some small auxiliary craft. Most important, U.S. patrol vessels which have had to stand vigil will be freed for tasks elsewhere...
Watching Uncle Sam. The Jap worked hard for the same kind of information. From surface vessels and his "stationary carriers" in the islands, his patrol planes ranged far & wide. This week the Jap broadcast some of his findings from Tokyo. Tokyo's story was that a heavy U.S. task force, centered on the carriers Hornet and Enterprise, was 580 miles east of the Solomon Islands, only 30 hours' steaming from the Coral Sea. If the Jap could be believed, the South Pacific lapped at the edges of a naval and air battle that could make the Coral...
...British public no longer laughs at this last line of defense. In the opinion of many an expert, the Home Guard has made Britain almost invulnerable to attack. On the northern moors countrymen patrol day & night. Golf courses in Kent and Surrey are littered with Home Guard barricades to prevent plane landings. At all strategic crossroads Home Guardsmen man pillboxes, road blocks or well-placed tank traps. Behind every hedgerow, at every cottage sill, at every parish well stands a little body of men who believe not only in England but in themselves...