Word: patroller
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They managed to send an SOS to U.S. Admiral William Halsey-"by means which we cannot make public." He replied by sending a submarine to rescue them. For four days, until taken off by a patrol ship, they led their sisterly lives, said the rosary in the cramped, metallic quarters of the undersea craft...
...director, he has made some of Hollywood's biggest successes: Dawn Patrol (first big flying film), Scar face (which started the gangster picture cycle), Sergeant York. First married to Athole Shearer (Norma's sister), Howard Hawks was divorced by her in 1940, and last year married a young scenario writer, Nancy Gross, lives with her on a new 100-acre ranch in the hills west of Los Angeles...
...battlefields of Spain, side by side with the new Axis partner Italy, the youthful Wehrmacht tested its new fighting power. While German guns and German bombs killed Spaniards, German warships sailed the Mediterranean and Atlantic on "nonintervention" patrol. The Axis, conceived in 1934, proclaimed in 1936, was developed by state visits between Berlin and Rome, cemented by a military alliance in May 1939. And in the capitals of Western Europe appeasement grew...
...Pacific Fleet's submarine force; somewhere near the west coast. A plane carrying him from Pearl Harbor circled near San Francisco, disappeared in the fog, four days later had not yet been heard from. He commanded the submarine 0-4 in War I, won the Navy cross for patrol duty, was made commander of the Pacific submarines...
...many a U.S. merchant seaman facing danger on the high seas, two organizations stand head & shoulders above all others. One of them is an obvious object of professional admiration: the U.S. Navy. But the other would stump most guessers. It is the unpaid, volunteer Civil Air Patrol. Men in ships, hardened by endless repetition to the inherent hazards of their own calling, still gape with honest admiration when they hear the sewing-machine hum of a low-powered CAP engine far from land and see a tiny landplane soaring overhead, patiently on the watch for the feather...