Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toward the Beach. We were nearly ten miles from the beach. The continuous circling in the water was tedious and some of us fell asleep. When we woke the yellow moon was turning orange and growing dimmer, the sky to our left was lit by flashes of gunfire where the British were supposed to be attacking Salerno, and now & then a huge glare ripped apart the darkness, as if a ship were exploding out to sea. But before us all was quiet and dark. We broke our circle and headed in a column toward a shore, which we could...
...were still a good distance from the beach; we had not even reached our line of departure; yet the German guns were on us already. As we learned later, the Germans were so sure of where we were going to land that they brought their defenses right onto our beach. Trees, brush and all obstacles were cut down so as to obtain a clear field of fire. Nothing was left to chance. Machine guns fired only in certain zones; the zones interlocked. Almost on the water's edge, in some cases only 50 yd. apart, machine guns were...
...operation, commanded by General Douglas MacArthur riding in a Flying Fortress, closed the last link in a trap around the Jap in the areas of Lae and Salamaua. The day before, Australians landing on the beach above Lae had shut off escape in that direction. Allied light naval craft guarded the sea approaches, sinking Jap barges that tried to sneak in with supplies and reinforcements...
...Clark's pants-the ones he lost in the water on his melodramatic sneak-trip to North Africa (TIME, Nov. 23, 1942)-are going to the Smithsonian Institution. The General's wife, who will present them, reported in Pittsburgh that they had been rescued from an African beach and ultimately returned to the General, who discovered they had shrunk and sent them home...
Correspondent Johnston has especially kind words for a German-born American and a native Papuan. The American, Herman Bottcher, led twelve volunteers into the Japanese positions, built fortifications on the beach. Constantly under fire, Bottcher provided a diversion that resulted in Allied victory. "By a conservative count . . . Bottcher and his twelve men . . . killed more than 120 Japs." The Papuan, Katue, conducted a one-man guerrilla war against the Japanese. In the jungles he killed innumerable Japanese and scared many New Guinea natives who had gone over to the Japanese back to the Allied side. After 73 days of individual exploits...