Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hurley who at the moment, as Mr. Ingalls well knew, was on the Pacific Manila-bound. "Dear Pat," said the letter, "It will give me and the entire Navy Department the very greatest pleasure to place at the disposal of the Army Air Corps a few of the naval patrol flying boats, for your brother service has viewed with sincere appreciation the difficulties experienced by the Army pilots in flying out of sight of land to discover and bomb the Mt. Shasta. . . . The Naval Aviation Service will be glad either to guide and convoy the Army bombers to and from...
Howard W. Hawks (The Dawn Patrol, The Criminal Code...
...Detroit a passenger on a moonlight excursion boat on the river was wounded when a customs patrol opened fire on a rumrunner...
...declared martial law-the first in eight years in Oklahoma-over the road to the latter span, summoned 32 guardsmen, including a colonel, three captains and a lieutenant, to halt all traffic a mile and a half away. After being duly photographed and interviewed, this force took up its patrol with orders from the Adjutant General: "Hold the fort but keep the cost down...
...wings of the planes 16 ft. apart. The dreary weather permitted only a stately parade of the squadrons down the hazy Hudson. Except for a few power dives and dog fights over Floyd Bennett Field, the only aerobatics of the afternoon took place inland over New Jersey. A patrol of pursuit planes dove at the World-Telegram-Eastern Air Transport's "flying press box," shooed it further off the course...