Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Preparation. Nazi dive-bombers, which claimed a heavy toll of shipping in the bight of Bougie, harried the advance of British and U.S. troops. U.S. motorized units raced along the coast and joined the amphibious forces of the British First Army when it landed on the beach at Bone, 60 miles from the border. In three columns the united armies marched over the border at dawn Nov. 14 and began to make their way over the sizable mountains that divide Tunis from Algeria. Ahead of them, Allied paratroops, which left Britain only four days before, floated...
...summer long the Marines had got supplies and reinforcements from small boats landed on the beach west of Henderson Field. The prevailing wind had been from the southeast, so that there were no waves pounding on the beach. But now, with the rainy season, the prevailing wind was beginning to haul around to the exact opposite quarter, so that rough water would hamper beach landings. It was imperative to reach out and capture Point Cruz, which sticks out like a miniature Florida into Sealark Channel. Under the lee of Point Cruz landings could be safely made, whatever the wind...
Robert C. Miller (U.P.) and Richard Tregaskis (I.N.S.) were first ashore. They rolled on to the beach with the marines who took over the island. Some other reporters were rescued from ships that were sunk, never got there...
...Angeles tall, blond Army Pilot Lieut. William N. Wilson, 25, met his old friend Airliner Co-Pilot Louis F. Reppert Jr. "It was agreed," said the report of a Congressional investigating committee, "that Lieut. Wilson would attempt to time his take-off [next day] from Long Beach to conform with the time of the airliner at Burbank so that they could meet some place in the vicinity of San Gorgonio Pass." The plan clicked; at the rendezvous Lieut. Wilson waggled his plane's wings in greeting. He passed in front of the airliner...
...this week the Marines had killed five times as many men as they had lost. This they had done in three battles and many minor patrols. The first took place to the east of the beach head when a whole battalion of Japs tried to force the Tenaru River across a narrow spit (TIME, Sept. 28). Machine guns and tanks caught them, and 670 bodies were found in the jungle and on the sand. Later 120 more bodies washed in from the sea. The second battle came in mid-September, when the Japs tried to force Lunga Ridge...