Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good beaches and roads leading directly down to the heart of the defense area at Manila. But there is trouble for an invader here. The water is shallow and only the small outriggers can use the gulf's shores. To land at Lingayen an enemy would have to anchor two or three miles offshore, lighter his troops to the beach. Once ashore, he would find that the single rail road and two trunk highways leading south to Manila are really a succession of causeways over the low-lying land. In the rainy season the valley...
Batangas Bay, 50 miles south of Manila, would be a second good place to attack, for two reasons : the water is so deep that the largest ships can anchor close inshore; and it is near Manila. But from the beachhead the roads pass through slits in the mountains, cross deep defiles over bridges that could be destroyed. And, since it is closer to the capital, a heavy defending force could quickly be moved south to fend off attack at the beach itself...
...grey, cold morning, ship watchers at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay reported tersely: ''British warship, King George V class, off Norfolk waters."* Through a morning mist the battleship swung northwest, past the mouth of the Potomac, the inlets of Maryland's Eastern Shore, to drop anchor, invisible in the rain and fog, five miles from the Naval Academy at Annapolis. If Lord and Lady Halifax were waiting for a first glimpse of the U. S. they saw a desolate one-a waste of grey water, a cold, grey...
...movie locale, it was quite natural for Harvard's Naval Science to be a gentleman's course--a refuge for the major H and the broad A. But today the Navy is steaming full speed ahead, while both instructors and prospective ensigns at Harvard still are dragging anchor. Almost the only ones taking the work seriously are a few martinets who aspire to minor posts of command in the annual review. And recent attempts to improve esprit de corps via beery conviviality are a poor substitute for good classroom presentation of theory with subsequent practical application...
...Battle of the Marmarica) aboard the Cunarder Queen Mary in Bombay, en route to prison in Australia, whence the Queen will soon fetch 16,000 more Anzacs for the Middle East. In Bombay also they saw the He de France, idle; at Cape Town, the Queen Elizabeth, at anchor...