Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glittery sets of Newport, Hollywood, Park Avenue, and Broadway were all well represented. Sugar Heiress Geraldine Spreckels moved from Miami to Palm Beach on her way to Beverly Hills. At Palm Beach were James H. R. ("Jimmie") Cromwell, busy Extramen Randolph ("Randy") Burke and Alastair Mackintosh. Lily Pons, Jeanette MacDonald were at Miami; so was Broadway's Choo Choo Johnson. Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell, whose work often takes him to Florida in the winter season, went on writing columns denouncing other people's interference with the war effort. Ranking victim of the transportation squeeze was wealthy...
...destroyers swung broadside to the low-lying coast and sounded a compelling reveille with the barking of their 5-in. guns. Boats crowded with green-clad men crawled like bugs toward the shore. This was no landing on an enemy beach saturated by bombardment; success this time depended on surprise...
...Japs were surprised. Shells fell around the boats as they pushed their way into a 50-yd.-wide channel through coral reefs. But the Japs were too late, their resistance disorganized. The green-clad troop tumbled out onto a strip of beach and drove the defenders back into the jungles with gunfire...
...Hold On." Eight hours after the landing, MacArthur himself went ashore from a destroyer. He stood erect in a Higgins boat, wearing a trench coat and his gold-braided cap. Disdaining snipers, he traversed the beach, congratulating his troops...
...Nazi bomber swooped in over the Anzio beach, dropped its big radio-controlled rocket bomb, started to guide it toward the Allied supply ships below. The ships tossed up a fountain of flak, trying to explode the projectile. Suddenly the bomb slowed in midair, twisted into a crazy loop, started straight back toward its parent plane...