Word: patroller
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This time when his pupils went into action on Attu, Holland Smith was allowed to watch them from an airplane. Before the troops sailed for Kiska, Smith wanted a patrol sent in to find out if the Japs had really pulled out. The patrol was not sent...
Ghosting over the South Atlantic, patrol planes sighted a strange merchant vessel. That night the U.S. destroyer Somers caught up with her, recognized an enemy, opened fire with 5-in. guns. The merchantman's crew began abandoning ship at the first salvo. When the destroyer closed, demolition charges sent the freighter to the bottom...
...bottom, another German blockade-runner, of the same general type and cargo, probably slipped through. Lord Selborne, Britain's Minister of Economic Warfare, gave a hardheaded estimate that 75% of the German blockade-runners were sunk last year. That any get through at all, in this day of patrol planes and radio nets, is a proof of an old seaman's saw: the seas are vast...
...Japanese prisoners for headquarters. The 32nd Division was moving in from the Saidor beachhead on New Guinea, and wanted more information. Twenty-four-year-old 2nd Lieut. John Lee Mohl had been scouting Jap trails far ahead of the American positions, and thought he knew where a small patrol could be ambushed...
...point blank range; Private Paul Reynolds, from behind a big rock, chopped down the last three with deft bursts from his Browning automatic rifle. Passarelli and Boaz had knocked their man cold; Mohl subdued his with a pistol butt. Back at an American outpost they radioed headquarters: "Mission accomplished, patrol returning." Sole U.S. casualty: Lieut. Mohl. His Jap had bitten him on the hand...