Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bert Brandt, an Acme photographer, later reported: "Boats were burning and a pall of smoke hung over the beach. I saw some bodies of soldiers who had been killed in the first landings floating in the water. . . . There were tremendous rafts floating offshore, jammed with trucks, tanks, ambulances...
...Those Mortars." Mortar fire from the cliffs fell like rain on one beach. Over the radio came a pleading voice to R.A.F. Spitfire pilots wheeling overhead: "For God's sake get those mortars quick. Dig them out, boys, they are right down our necks." The Spitfires dipped down and dug the Nazis...
That move had paid off heavily for the Allies. Minesweepers had been able to do an especially good job of cleaning up the beach approaches, and the skippers of the host of first-wave landing craft could see the German water obstacles (submerged at flood tide), thus had a minimum of trouble from ripped bottoms in the first few hours...
...Bougainville the hungry Japs back in the jungles had taken to cultivating patches of vegetables. The 13th Air Force, trying to chivvy the Japs down to the beach to fight again, went after these truck gardens...
Blinkered back the six-chimneyed LCK, bustling haughtily toward the beach: "-----" (censored...