Word: patroller
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Legends piled up fast. One told of a sea-crashed pilot who was found in his little rubber boat, paddling hotly with his bare hands toward Sikaiana and fighting off rescuers. Another related that a certain patrol-plane crew, overcome by tales of beauty and hospitality, got off course somehow and had to sit down for repairs at, of all places, Sikaiana. Then airmen of a rival service learned what had happened...
Members of this snake patrol, who set out to collect venom for serum-making for the South African Institute of Medical Research, are Corporals F. Walsey and M. J. Clemence and Private L. L. Lear. In the past 15 months they have captured close to a thousand of Africa's deadliest snakes...
Once captured, the snakes are taken to patrol headquarters at Komati Poort, where they are forcibly fed with meat and egg flip, milked of their venom at intervals...
...Sunk three subs, a patrol boat and (with planes from another carrier) sunk four aircraft carriers and three destroyers...
...secret, others are merely the old tactics of defense brushed up by experience or bolstered with stronger weapons. These include : 1) more escort ships and planes for convoys; 2) reorganized defenses and new defenses set up at strategic shore and island points; 3) a newly developed long-distance aerial patrol; 4) secret anti-submarine devices; 5) the strategic bombing of submarine bases, repair docks and factories...