Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Beach, Calif...
Preached this old-line Navy man: "The fellow we are working for is the fellow that walks on the ground. Whatever we are doing we are doing solely to get that boy on the beach." Cooperation was his passionate credo. More than any other man in the Pacific he was charged with combining all operations into one fast, striking force...
...operation by remote control. In crowded Rendova Harbor the Wacky Mack was hit and knocked out by Jap aircraft. Turner and his staff abandoned the slowly foundering ship, crawled over landing nets into a destroyer, dangling their uniforms on clothes hangers. But he got "that boy" on the beach without the loss of a single life. When it was over he commented sarcastically: "If you go in and can't handle the situation you move too fast. If you go in and encounter no opposition you move too late." The vociferous Turner was transferred to the Central Pacific...
...Lieut. Benny Reece, one of the advanced unit commanders. "We're doing what we can. Don't get excited. Got many casualties? We'll try to get litter bearers up as soon as possible." Several Spitfires chased two German fighter-bombers which had just raided the beach. "The bastards," snorted Toffey...
...furnace of these sometimes fumbled campaigns the Navy had forged a powerful weapon. To its fleet had been added strange, unheard-of craft which opened their mouths like Jonah's whale to spew trucks, howitzers, Marines, Seabees, infantrymen, seagoing tanks, onto beaches. To naval warfare had been added a whole new book of "standard procedures" covering the hazardous, complicated job of ship-to-shore ferrying. The "beach master" who stood on shore directing the weird traffic assumed as much importance as the master of a ship...