Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chaplains led another song: Onward, Christian Soldiers. The President and the Prime Minister sang lustily. But their voices were drowned in the drone of the patrol planes overhead...
...Navy commander. But its importance to the U.S. was far out of proportion to the three stripes on its commander's shoulder boards. From Midway's dredged-out central lagoon (landing place for Pan Am Clippers) the largest Navy seaplane tenders can mother a fleet of patrol bombers, ranging as far north as Alaska's Aleutian chain, south to Pago Pago, west to the edges of Japan itself...
...Navy is fairly well off with the Pacific defense now building. The radii of its patrol planes overlap from Alaska's Dutch Harbor to Samoa's Pago Pago, from Pearl Harbor to Manila. The Navy can cover the Pacific against any surprise attack. Once its reconnaissance pilots have located the enemy, the job is up to the bombers, and to the Pacific and Asiatic Fleets, which are now spread from Hawaii to Manila in a pattern that no Navy man will reveal...
These were patrol shoes, real "sneakers" -silent, light, comfortable. They were useful last week...
Until recently the defenses of the Philippines have been split under several commands. Keystone of Philippine defense are the U.S. regulars and the Philippine Scouts. Few months ago these pros totaled some 10,000. But this year, while the Navy has built up its Asiatic Fleet with patrol bombers, submarines, surface craft, the Army has not been idle. Army strength in the Philippines today is a military secret...