Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life raft bumping the waves of the Windward Passage near Haiti looked no bigger than a cork when the Catalina patrol plane first sighted it; but when Ensign Francis E. Pinter eased his ship down to 200 ft., he could make out 17 people crowded upon it. To attempt a landing in such a choppy sea was a risky business for a plane that was toting a pair of depth charges, beaching gear, and a crew of eight, but Ensign Pinter figured that the plane had burned 300 gallons of gas since it left San Juan, Puerto Rico, was therefore...
Frank Knox had said that the U.S. campaign against U-boats off the Atlantic Coast by aircraft and sea patrol seemed to be getting somewhere, but warned that it was going to take a lot of doing to put the German completely out of business. The German underlined the warning last week. The U.S. public got no total of his sinkings, but his attacks, by day & night, vignetted scenes of death and loss like glimpses of a vast battle seen in the lightning's flash...
...from the announcement of the starting hurier, no innovations have been planned for the Yardling baseballers by Coach Adolf Samborski. Hoss Hamlen will don the mitt and mask; George Casey, Vinnie Leahy, Jim Gallagher, and Jim Apthorp form the inner defense, and Don Richards. Steve Reidy and Billy Barron patrol the gardens...
...patrol boats, the 110-foot (wood) and 170-foot (steel) sub chasers which are now building in profusion in U.S. small boatyards. They are being made on the shores of the Great Lakes, along the New England coast and even in landlocked inland States. Their production rate is a satisfactory military secret...
...also seagoing patrol craft, but their range is short, and their prime function is to break up fleet attacks on bases such as the Panama Canal. The Navy last week permitted pictures to be printed of a fleet of 77-foot shallow-draft mosquito boats maneuvering off the Canal, slamming over the water at So m.p.h., armed with 50-caliber anti-aircraft guns and bearing in their powerful little bodies a pack of torpedoes. No submarine cares to surface in an area where the little motor torpedo boats operate on the alert, because a PT can run down any craft...