Word: patroller
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...Nazi defenses in that likely invasion sector. Commando machine guns and anti-tank guns, brought ashore in parts and quickly assembled, silenced a German pillbox. Rattled Nazis fired at each other. Nazi tracers lanced out toward the barges and naval-escort vessels, waiting offshore. The British spotted two German patrol vessels, sank one and set another blazing. Some members of the Commando kept up a covering fire from the beach; others slashed the German barbed wire, knifed, shot and clubbed German sentries. Farther along the shore, R.A.F. fighter-bombers attacked German searchlights and guns. An hour after landing, Major Trevor...
...Atlantic coasts. On Miami's Pier 2 Navy men swarmed through a quarter-mile length of offices and warehouses. They pored over textbooks on gunnery, enemy ship and plane recognition, seamanship, navigation. They raced over the sea in fast, sleek boats. These were the men of PC-Patrol Craft...
...press was a new note of apprehension that the Navy was not attacking the U-boat problem with sufficiently imaginative vigor, despite the patrol planes, bombers, blimps and surface craft that are dumping bombs and depth charges wherever an enemy sub is suspected...
...fashion glued-wood planes at its Maryland factory, where the aircraft industry's first women guards patrol the production lines, Fairchild puts the almost paper-thin veneers under heat and pressure in steel cylinders. Baked and pressed into shape, they are free of the rivet-bumps on aluminum alloy planes, do not wrinkle, as metal does, under the impact of gusts...
Marias. In Nashville, Tenn., Police Chief John Griffin decided to put a lock on the patrol-wagon door after a prisoner ran away. In Kearny, N.J., four men who lived on a garbage dump were convicted of vagrancy. After looking them over, police refused to let them enter their shining patrol wagon, carried them to jail in a garbage truck...