Word: patroller
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...done nothing and I denied my wife had cursed [as the clerk contended]. I told them my wife didn't curse. When I said that, a man not in officers' garb gave me all he had on the jaw. Then I was dragged to the patrol car, handcuffed between two officers. I was struck again by this man not in uniform, who leaned through a window to hit me. My wife and I were put in a cell and our little girl left on the outside...
...Battle Opens. Navy patrol planes picked up the first enemy column west of Midway on June 3. This was the landing force: cruisers, transports, cargo ships, many escort vessels. Far to the north a U.S. carrier force ranged. But it would be a full day before it could get within range...
...bemoaned a wartime paradox: despite high prices and the biggest demand ever, many a fisherman loafs at home while many a home goes without fish. Chief reason: more than 400 of the biggest and most efficient fishing boats, Navy-manned, are now hard at work as mine sweepers and patrol boats. Japanazi submarines keep all but the most daring fishermen close inshore...
...Helpful was a small-plane courier-cargo service newly established by OCD's Civil Air Patrol, shuttling between factories and shipping points...
...planes could deliver five whole streamlined divisions across the Atlantic in the same time required by 30 surface transports carrying 2,000 men each. And some 3,500 planes of types now in use (Boeing B-17 four-engine bombers, or Consolidated PBY-2 four-engine patrol bombers) could transfer a streamlined division from one coast to the other in one night. The problem is not whether such hitherto undreamed-of fleets are desirable. The problem is how they can be created...