Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: It is with great regret that I have heard of the misinterpretation by some persons of the description of Tel Aviv given me by Colonel Jack P. Morison, post chaplain at the AAF Training Center in Miami Beach, in an interview for TIME...
...least two hours before the first landing was made. But the Japs were not prepared for so strong an attack at a spot so lightly defended and so difficult to reinforce. General Cunningham's plan called for a diversionary landing by Sixth Army units on "Blue Beach" at the top of the peninsula, then the main landing on "Orange Beach" at the foot...
...diversionary force, about 150 Commando-trained troops, slipped into rubber landing boats, headed for Blue Beach. The Japs may have thought this the main show. At close range they opened fire with machine guns and a light cannon and the U.S. loss was heavy. The fire destroyed eleven of 16 American boats, killed or wounded most of the 150 expendables, forced the remnant to turn back...
...hour later, while Allied planes patrolled above and warships lobbed in shells from the sea, two Ducks (amphibious trucks) led the main landing on to Orange Beach. Armed with a newly installed weapon, the Ducks raked the shore, cleared a way for Buffaloes (amphibious tanks), then Alligators (amphibious, troop-carrying tractors...
Nowhere, save at Blue Beach, did the Sixth Army encounter the defenses or the bloody kind of resistance found at Munda and Tarawa. Its casualties were light. It quickly dispersed a numerically weak Jap garrison. Within five hours it had made good the landing. The Arawe peninsula and its key coastal isles were taken. The mopping up was not completed when U.S. troops began to enlarge their beachhead...