Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bloody beaches a staff officer told Alexander: "The situation is catastrophic." "Sorry," said Alexander, "I don't understand such big words." He then squatted on the beach and built a sand castle. He was the last man in his command to leave Dunkirk...
From headquarters aboard his destroyer surrounded by the complexity of modern warfare, General Roberts watched the battle's progress, directed land, sea and sky operations by radio. Three aides listened with earphones, relayed his orders to warships, to tank drivers pounding along Dieppe's beach, to Spitfire pilots high in the summer sky, to the air command 77 miles away in England, upon whom he depended for air reinforcement...
...tired as he steered his convertible past the towers of Eliot House up to his garage on Boylston Street. It had been a strenuous drive home from the beach--evidently all the defense workers picked the same time as he did to use their cars. He felt discouraged as he trudged home. No date tonight, no more gas for a week...
...that furnace-hot, crystal-clear July 3 of 1898, her turrets swung around, her guns (four 13-inchers, eight 8-inchers) spat steel and death at the Spaniards, her sweating gun crews cheered. Six Spanish ships were destroyed, the Spanish flagship Maria Teresa was chased onto the beach. U.S. Commodore W. S. Schley wigwagged: "Well done, brave Oregon." And because the Oregon was almost late to battle, she clinched another argument, which ended U.S. isolationism forever: a Panama canal was vital to U.S. defense...
Sergeant Hank Greenberg was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces at Miami Beach...