Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yours will be the first help we shall get. You'll land on the beach ten miles from us. I want you to fight your way across country, reach the bridges we are holding and pass through to aid us in fighting the Nazis in the country beyond-and I want you to be there on time. You land on the beaches some time after 8 a.m. on Dday. I want you to be at the bridges by 12:15, four and a quarter hours later. Do you think...
...Your invasion team is all present or accounted for. Walton and Capa are with me, Landry is down the road. Scherschel is somewhere on the beach and Ragsdale, I hope, is on the way back to London. Byron Thomas and Bohrod are also said to be beachcombing somewhere. Reports from the second batch of correspondents arriving yesterday are that Belden and White are still held up in England...
...made duck carried Charles de Gaulle from ship to beach. A British-driven jeep bore him inland. The first Frenchmen the General spied were two gendarmes standing on a roadside. The jeep braked sharply. The gendarmes, seeing a French general, came over...
...begun operating a charter-and-barnstorming company near Chicago; five years later switched to St. Petersburg, Fla. There National's assets consisted of tireless George Baker and a rickety, single-engined Ryan cabin plane which he flew from cow pastures at Jacksonville to empty lots at Daytona Beach...
...hangar and tinkered with the motor a bit, opened the office, sold the ticket, carried the baggage to the plane, and finally hedgehopped his passenger to the other end of the line. Once a plane landed on the back of a cow lying on the poorly-lighted Daytona Beach runway. But George's luck held: the cow was killed, but the passengers unscathed...