Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canadian airmen and planes now use the Labrador airdrome for Atlantic patrol; U.S. air forces will soon arrive...
Labrador's air base is merely one in a string, stretching northward from Newfoundland to Baffin Island. From Newfoundland and Labrador planes fly a constant anti-submarine patrol. The Labrador fields, although north of the Army's bases in Newfoundland, are better off for all-year flying than those in Newfoundland. Reason: Newfoundland's persistent, plaguing fogs, which have often interrupted but never halted bomber deliveries to Britain. Even Greenland's vast, inland icecap is not the hazard which most people suppose it to be. Says the U.S. Army Air Corps Arctic Manual (published...
Shepherded by a Coast Guard tug and three tootling patrol boats, the Swedish-American liner Drottningholm nosed into New York Harbor. She had come through the most dangerous waters in the world, with 40 searchlights playing on Swedish flags painted on her hull and on the word "DIPLOMAT" in letters 13 feet high. Aboard were 114 Americans repatriated from Norway and Sweden. In other ships, similarly lighted and on similar missions, there was under way last week the greatest exchange of diplomats and belligerent nationals in history...
From the mountains of New England to the shaggy slopes of Georgia's hills, flames ate greedily at priceless timber. Red-eyed, smoke-bleary, smudge-blackened men fought, cursed, touched off backfires. Out over the Atlantic rolled billows of smoke, swept east by the prevailing winds. Airmen on patrol for submarines groped through the haze...
...coastal fires were the work of Axis agents, their purpose was twofold: to cloak submarines from the prying eyes of U.S. aircraft on patrol; to drag men from vital war factories to fight the fires. Fire-fighting manpower was at a low ebb. The draft had cut deeply into the ranks of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Soldiers and sailors banded together with hastily recruited citizens to dig trenches, fell trees...