Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Probably the low point of the Normandy campaign in its initial stages occurred during four days of storm, which seriously interfered with unloading operations on the beach...
...forgot the rain; we forgot our rations. We forgot our soaked clothes. We were able to take a more philosophical view of the destruction and dislocation on the beach. We felt revived and confident. It was clear to us that if Americans could listen to music in a situation like that, the situation could...
...Thus within less than a week, and before the first on-the-scene copy reached the States, the PH experts had begun and ended the battle of Saipan. In Pearl Harbor they wrote with beautiful enthusiasm of American troops swamping the Japs, sweeping up Saipan's beach, blasting blithely through its defenses, sprinting to the island's biggest airport, largest town, highest mountain. They wrote with such smug confidence of victory that no reader and no editor could doubt that American troops here were engaged in a picnic of no consequence. So long as press communications remain...
With heavy banks of fog rolling in at Hampton Beach and a driving rain damping things down along the Common, many of the Chase gang were at their wits end. But not for long. Very soon after inspection-too soon in the case of certain skivvy clad members encountered by Lt. Town on his rounds, chase went on the chase in force...
...Virginia major's gallantry was almost a legend to men of the 29th Infantry Division. On D-day he had whisked across the beach ahead of his men, alone had silenced a machine gun. At La Madeleine he and his men had fought their way to a surrounded battalion, then had found themselves surrounded. Together the two battalions stood off the Germans for 36 bitter hours, finally broke out toward Saint...