Word: patroller
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...nations, will put in a small force to protect the source of bauxite, will withdraw its troops as soon as "the present danger" is removed. For the Dutch to protect the mines would mean withdrawal of troops from The Netherlands East Indies, which is at present "inadvisable." Brazil will patrol its Surinam border and send a mission to Paramaribo to consult...
...officers had high praise for Hugh Drum's slick, resourceful methods (such as persuading local radio "hams" to stay off his communications channels). But they lifted their eyebrows at one Drum beat that was a little too slick. On the maneuvers' first day, a venturesome Red reconnaissance patrol penetrated Blue lines and captured Hugh Drum as he drove along a highway with only his aide and chauffeur. By bluster and guile the lieutenant general persuaded his captor, a young captain, to turn him loose. Grumped a ranker to the gullible youngster: "You should have taken...
...Shanghai in 1940, when British and Italian Marines began to brawl, Tommy Hart didn't wait to consult the Japanese Admiral, who regarded the settlement as his preserve. He went to work on the British and Italian commanders, within a few hours had a twelve-man inter-allied patrol keeping peace throughout Shanghai. The patrol was made up of four Seaforth Highlanders, four Italian Marines, four U.S. Navy men, who were tactfully planted in the middle of the group...
...hull, with long, tapering, twin-ruddered tails. These are Consolidated's big boats-PB2Ys, four-en-gined big brothers of the two-engined PBYs. Like everything else Rube Fleet turns out, they are built to Fleet's most important hallmark: long range. These giants, designed for naval patrol, can travel 5,200 miles-possibly more-on a single load of gas. They can cruise at 170 m.p.h. on 45% of the power of their four Pratt & Whitney 1,200-h.p. engines...
...with the Arab Legion has been peacemaking. After learning Arabic so that he spoke it more fluently than the late great T. E. Lawrence, in 1930 he organized the Desert Patrol, part of Lieut. Colonel Frederick G. Peake's Arab Legion...