Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eugene Moore joined the Marines just a year ago; he was one of those landed on Gavutu Island in the Solomons. His tank proceeded up the beach that day in advance of the infantry, spied a Jap pillbox, stopped to fire. Out of a bomb shelter near by poured a horde of reckless, howling Japs. They swarmed over the tank, jammed a crowbar in the tank-track...
Last week the authorities ordered 18 Italian-Americans excluded from the San Francisco military area as dangerous to security-the first such action against white citizens. The wonder was that it was not done earlier: everybody heard about the goings on in the North Beach Italian colony. Fascists there used to say RoBerTo as a greeting-Ro for Rome, Ber for Berlin, To for Tokyo. Italy sent teachers, books and medals for the Italian schools. Mussolini won a popularity contest hands down over Franklin Roosevelt...
...Long Beach he visited the Douglas aircraft plant. In San Diego he rode through the streets so often-on his way to Tom Girdler's Consolidated Aircraft plant, to the Navy's Camp Pendleton, to the home of Son John Roosevelt-that the whole city turned out to watch. One rumor had it that General Douglas MacArthur, in mufti, was a member of his party...
...Miami Beach, a dearth of barbers forced many a soldier and workman to down an old masculine prejudice, sneak into a beauty shoppe, settle back to have his hair trimmed by a beautician...
...general position was "as if the Marines held Jones Beach and the rest of Long Island were loosely dominated by the enemy." On dark nights the Japs landed more and more troops. After U.S. tanks slaughtered 700 Japs, 700 men replaced the dead. The battle, as told by Baldwin...