Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second time we hit the beach at Iwo the marines were taking over Mt. Suribachi. When they raised a little flag on top of the mountain, the marines on the beach cheered. A little later a marine came on board asking for a larger, flag, so I gave him our only large flag-which is the one pictured on the first page of TIME magazine last week [March 5 3:= We are-proud that it is our flag flying there...
...lifted the plain grey coffin from the ambulance and laid it against a bank of flowers on green camouflage wire. High-ranking officers, led by Marine Lieut. General Roy S. Geiger, stood at attention while the brief service was read. The melancholy notes of taps floated over nearby Hagushi Beach, where General Buckner's men had swarmed ashore on Easter morning. Then his body was lowered into the ground, to rest in honor with the other thousands who had died to win Okinawa...
...Casino and to goggle earnestly at his fabelhaft aquarium. Before they left, they had stripped the great gambling Casino in Monte Carlo of its copper dome, placed ack-ack batteries in the Tir aux Pigeons (one of Europe's famed shooting grounds), sowed mines in the sun-drenched beach. Even now Prince Louis could hear the lethal crump! crump! as Allied engineers exploded the mines...
Aside from the spongy swamps, thick jungles and steaming heat, it was a walk over for the "rats of Tobruk"-Australia's 9th Division. The Japanese, as usual, left only rearguards around the beach, and pulled back into the mountains and jungles with 2,000 to 5,000 troops. On the first day the Aussies found only 61 enemy dead and took one prisoner; they lost not a single man in the landing...
Scanty Evidence. In Long Beach, Calif., Joan Morton won a divorce after testify ing that her jealous husband flew off the handle when his laundry erred and he discovered a pair of men's shorts four sizes too big for him in his own dresser drawer...