Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...routine C-2 cargo ship when the Navy took her over before the war. Three times she ran supplies into the Solomons under the bomb bays of Jap planes. On the fourth trip the Alchiba got it. Loaded with aviation gasoline, ammunition and bombs, she was riding at anchor off Guadal when a sub's torpedo blasted her. Gasoline and ammunition started going up. Her captain, Commander James S. Freeman, decided to try to save her, ordered up anchor and full speed ahead. Listing 18°, the Alchiba crunched on to the beach...
...west from Kharkov, the Red Army will emerge onto open, forest-free flatland ideal for swift, grand-scale tank maneuvers and mobile warfare. The Germans already fear the loss of this year's harvest in the Ukraine. Trapped by a push that threatens to reach the southern anchor of the Dnieper line and the Crimea, they would be up against a more fearful strategic problem: to retreat would mean giving up their greatest prize; to stand and fight it out would be risking annihilation of approximately...
Canadians Forward. As the Eighth Army's "left hook," the Canadians shared the job of outflanking Catania, the eastern anchor of the German line. They slugged a path across the terraced hills. They tried their bayonets and lungs in vicious charges through vineyards and lemon orchards. They helped the British into Regalbuto and Centuripe. From that high ground they could roll up the whole German line on Mt. Etna's western slope. General Montgomery could now begin the envelopment of Catania, and thereby spare his men a costly frontal assault...
...Axis anchor of this line was on the plain of Catania, some three miles south of that stoutly defended port. There, for ten days, Germans of the agile Hermann Göring (armored) Division had held the British, waging battles which were still scantily reported in the U.S. press last week. One explanation of this temporary German success probably lay in an Allied communiqué of July 16: "The speed of the advance is very satisfactory, but transport and supporting weapons are of necessity limited during the present stages...
...invasion. The area they hit ranged from Sardinia 800 miles eastward to Greece. It was an area of destruction. Along its varied route lay shattered Axis planes, bomb-ripped airfields, flaming hangars; charred landing docks, twisted loading cranes and supply ships, fire-gutted and listing at anchor; splintered freight cars; black, billowing smoke that had been million-gallon oil dumps; and the smoking rubble of torpedo factories, iron foundries, steel works, chemical plants and supply depots...