Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rzhev, powerful Axis anchor, was bypassed. But the Russians claimed that the line from Rzhev to Vyazma in the south was cut. If that was true, another encirclement was developing which might isolate one of the strongest fortified positions along Germany's whole Russian front...
...storm signals were still up. For Donald Nelson, the situation was rapidly getting out of hand. In the big wind sure to come some time, he would have to find a firm anchor or be blown away...
...August 1941, the St. Roch and her crew nosed their indomitable way from Cambridge Bay into the unknown water wasteland of Pasley Bay. Dropping anchor in a storm to save themselves from reefs, they were caught for eleven months when open water turned suddenly to eight feet of ice. "We struck a very bad season," said Sergeant Larsen, whose idea of a good season would frighten most men to death. The men blasted huge ice floes and icebergs threatening the uniquely tough hull of the St. Roch, which was copper sheathed and overlaid with ice-resisting Australian ironbark...
That summer the St. Roch weighed anchor, ran into the worst part of the trip. In Franklin Strait, said Skipper Larsen, "we drifted back & forth for nearly a month before we finally got clear. More than once we gave up hope of ever getting...
...traditional fouled anchor, centered on a white diamond in a field of blue, distinguishes the newly-acquired flag...