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...they droned off over Japan, others were left behind to fly CAP (combat air patrol). And on the bridge of the Third Fleet's flagship was the tough, stubby seadog whom the Japanese mortally hate & fear. "Bull" Halsey was on the prowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF JAPAN: Bull's-Eye | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...prepare San Francisco for the world security conference three weeks hence. Treasury procurement agents rounded up 20 carloads of desks, 400 typewriters with French, Spanish and Russian keyboards, cartons of pens, pencils, binders and ink bottles. Police departments in New York, Chicago and New Orleans picked detectives to prowl San Francisco looking for New York, Chicago and New Orleans crooks. San Francisco hotelmen sweated at the thankless job of shooing guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: What! No Hash? | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...high-polished cavalry boots cocked on the glass top of his desk, his long-fingered hands relaxed in his lap. He listened now & then over his command radio to battle reports. They were good. His tankmen were rampaging around, deep in Germany, on the loose and on the prowl, raiding and rolling on. Patton could turn off the radio and turn on one of his favorite topics of conversation: the Civil War battle of Fredericksburg. Willie, the General's white bull terrier, snuffed sleepily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Star Halfback | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Nazi spies and an assortment of French and Danish patriots prowl, around with strange grins on their faces through exotic restaurants, pawn shops, gambling dens, and little French fishing towns, Hedy, at her lovliest, is the most mysterious character of all. But since Paul Henreld, a loyal Dutchman, falls in love with her, it's easy to guess how the luscious Lamarr ends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Conspirators" | 11/7/1944 | See Source »

...German patrol, on the prowl in Normandy, nabbed Private Anthony Blazus Jr., of Fredericksburg, Pa. and led him toward Roncey. There his captors joined a motorized column of the Nazi 17th SS Division, preparing to escape southward. Said Blazus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Then the Planes Came | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

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