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Last week the R.A.F. Coastal Command and the U.S. Navy let out a story about one of their most important antisubmarine operations. Over the Bay of Biscay giant, white Liberators keep a constant, 24-hour patrol. They sweep back & forth in a perpetual search to nail subs before they spew out into mid-Atlantic from their pens on the French west coast. During most of the long hours the scanning eye sees only a wilderness...
...darkened farmhouse just north of San Vittore on the road to Rome, Germans were clinking glasses and singing the old songs of Christmas Eve. Outside, Lieut. Frank S. Greenlee of Nashville and a patrol of 15 slipped through the lines, crept close enough to identify their quarry. Then they let loose, killing many, taking the rest prisoner...
They man the pleasure cruisers which have been turned over to the Coast Guard Auxiliary, fill out depleted crews of regular Coast Guard cutters, squeegee paint, scrub decks, inspect buoys, board incoming merchantmen and seal their radios, run signal lights, patrol docks and beaches. In their idle time between their twelve-hour-a-week duty and their regular civilian jobs, the hottest zealots study seamanship, gunnery and navigation...
...outstanding flotilla is the one organized by Kenneth S. Magoon, ex-commodore of the Cottage Park Yacht Club, now a TR lieutenant (j.g.). Lieut. Magoon's flotilla has grown from 100 to 600 volunteers. Most of Magoon's flotilla patrol the Massachusetts beaches, stepping thoughtfully around lovers, eyes beamed seaward for flares, boats in distress, enemy submarines. Chunky, energetic Lieut. Magoon resents the intrusion of his State St. importing business on the long hours he devotes...
...long ago a Boston patrol, made up of a physician, a druggist, a bookseller and an undertaker, spotted a fire in the coal docks, fought the blaze until the firemen arrived, probably saved the Boston waterfront from a major disaster...