Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HOLT Laguna Beach, Calif...
...lined with palms, the Germans still held. Fréjus, where Julius Caesar planted supplies for Gaul, was taken the first day. Saint-Raphael, a modest fishing village gone garish with the trappings of a modern coast resort, was quickly captured, too. But Cannes, its luxury hotels, meager beach, its dreams of gambling and fish, yachts and flowers still belonged to the Germans...
Franklin Roosevelt went immediately to the palatial, showplace home of the late Christian R. Holmes, on famed Waikiki Beach. The highway to the house was blocked to traffic, surrounded with barbed wire and guarded by platoons of marines. At the cream stucco mansion, until recently a rest house for Navy aviators, the President had a spacious, 50-foot bedroom ; the bathroom of Presidential aide Sam Rosenman had a sunken tile tub big enough to swim in. The Commander in Chief set up military headquarters on a sundeck overlooking Waikiki's long, rolling surf...
...could it be? Guam's garrison had been taken by the Japs almost 31 months before. The ship put over a small boat. The man on the beach waded out into the surf to meet it. In the strangely soft voice of a man whose vocal cords have not been used for months, he told his story. He was the last man of the Guam garrison and he had hidden on the island until the fleet came back again...
Awed and thankful, Tweed gazed at the sight, wondered where the Navy had got so many ships and rushed down to the beach under the bombardment to flash his glass and wag his flags...