Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonels-that makes the next five miles seem like only four! And when General Eisenhower backed up Mauldin against all the stars-well, after that, Ike was our man. Through Up Front we can bitch to the men we want to listen. [SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD] Westhampton Beach...
There are the snapshots Peter Stackpole picked up on the bloody beach of Saipan ( one shows a smiling, doll-like Japanese child waving the flag of Nippon) -and the stamp collection TIME Senior Editor Sidney Olson took from the knapsack of a Hitler youth who lay dead outside battered Nürnberg( " The Russians had already gone over him pretty thoroughly, but they won't take anything that has the swastika...
...that morning as we lay off the beach at Tarakan leaning on the rail, an enlisted man beside him, a letter in his hands. He was reading. Then he folded the letter deliberately, put his arm around the sailor's shoulders, and handed him the letter. A moment later he appeared beside me on the bridge. He lighted a cigaret...
...black, oily beach a thousand yards off, a strip of LSTs and LCIs lay high & dry. Jap artillery and heavy mortar was splashing around them. Farther inland our naval barrage was laying in some white puffs amid the jungle green. We had been at general quarters since dawn and the machine-gun bursts from the shore side told of men fighting and dying there. But to the machinist's mate sitting alone in the quiet of his anguish, the war and all its noises had faded away. The war had lost its meaning. Everything he had been trained...
After lunch, the party watched technicians blow up a miniature Jap cruiser, went on to dinner at the beach house of International's Bill Goetz...