Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first wave of the 3rd Marine Division (part of the Third Am phibious Corps under Major General Roy Stanley Geiger, USMC) hit the beach between Adelup Point and Asan, north of Orote. Eighteen waves followed them with triphammer precision...
...Cannon's Mouth. Along a strip inland from the beach they drove some 1,500 yards into our positions before they were stopped. They got all the way into an artillery battalion which had moved twelve 105s into position the night, before. There they were stopped, and there the most forward of them died...
Simple Slaughter. Next morning our troops drove to the beach on the north of the Jap pocket and thus hemmed in the remnants of living and the windrows of dead in an area about a thousand yards along the beach and 500 yards inland. In the northern end of this pocket there was some fierce fighting that day before the enemy was beaten down. But from the lower end of the pocket, driving north, it was simple slaughter...
...near his post along the lonely Kerry coast, a U-boat surfaced, put a passenger ashore. Sir Roger Casement, famed Irish patriot, was back from the Kaiser's Germany with a message for Ireland's underground rebels. A countrywoman spied him sneaking along the beach, notified the constabulary. Sergeant O'Reilly hurried to the scene, made the arrest that sent Sir Roger to a traitor's hanging in the Tower of London...
...performed prodigious feats of labor both while under fire and after beachheads were well secured. Some unloaded boats for three days, with little or no sleep, working in water up to waist deep. Some in floating dump details were the first men to pile off their ship toward the beach...