Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what they had, U.S. and Australian airmen strove to smash, scatter and delay the assembling Japanese convoys and air fleets before they could gather their full strength for assault. A Navy communiqué from Washington reported a great victory by U.S. and Australian naval airmen (who probably flew PBY patrol bombers). Two heavy cruisers were sunk, and the attacking airmen thought, with varying degrees of certainty, that they had also sunk a light cruiser, three destroyers, five troop-jammed transports, a gunboat and a minesweeper. They damaged a fourth cruiser, a fourth destroyer, six transports, an aircraft tender...
...murky morning last week a British patrol surprised a pack of German E-boats in the English Channel. The swift little E-boats ran for safety: from the guns of the careening British, shells pursued them. Two E-boats were blown to bits. It was the start of a running fight which the British fought with E-boats for two days...
...pack of speedsters against a British convoy in the North Sea. Again British destroyers blew two E-boats to flotsam, but this time the Germans fought back, spitting torpedoes. One torpedo punched the frail hull of the Vortigern, a 1,090-ton oldtimer, and she went down. The British patrol sloop Guillemot, a 580-tonner which can do little better than 20 knots, spotted an E-boat lying in ambush, crept up within 50 yards before the German crew woke up. The Guillemot sent a 4-in. shell into the E-boat's water line and hosed its deck...
...Chilean freighter Tolten was unluckier. A fortnight ago, after unloading her cargo at Baltimore, she was proceeding to New York. Chilean flag brightly illuminated, to load return cargo. A U.S. patrol boat ordered her to turn off her lights. Complying, she was presently torpedoed. Of her crew of 29, apparently only one lived to tell what had happened...
Officially under the O.C.D. but taking orders direct from the Army, the Patrol is a national organization that intends to use civilian pilots to inspect the country from the air. Members of the Club here will watch power lines, patrol the coast, and help convoy ships into Boston...