Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through the jungles* toward airdrome sites in the Markham Valley. With missionaries or their native pupils for guides, tough Jap troops might even find a way 200 miles through the jungles and over the mountains to Port Moresby by land. According to the story, the Lutherans had abandoned their coastal missions and retired to the jungles. In one mission house Australian militia found Nazi arm bands and pennants...
...north, the direction of the Jap's main advances, but in the hot season the smaller rivers are dry, and detachments could be sent west without much trouble. One force crossed the vein-like little streams that slice up lower Burma and reached Bassein, just over the coastal hills from the Bay of Bengal...
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox did do something about it. He directed U.S. and neutral shipping in Atlantic coastal waters to follow fixed north-south sea lanes by day, to douse their lights (or face possible loss of masters' licenses) at night if they could not make harbor. Key coastal towns and resorts were ordered to black out. Frank Knox and a submarine-conscious eastern seaboard waited for results. But it was too early to tell...
First U.S. warship ever torpedoed in her own coastal waters, the Jacob Jones was the second U.S. destroyer named for the Commodore Jacob Jones who captured the British brig Frolic in the War of 1812. Her predecessor was the only U.S. destroyer lost to enemy action in World War I: in the winter of 1917 she was torpedoed 400 miles out of Brest by U-boat Commander Hans Rose, who hit her at 3,000 yards, the longest successful torpedo shot on record. The Navy, which does not believe in ill omens, will no doubt soon launch a sleek...
...first advised Lady MacRobert that her son, Sir Alasdair, 25, had crashed in England. The second told her that son Sir Roderic, 26, had been shot down in Iraq. The third reported the loss of son Sir Iain, 24, who was known as "the perfect Coastal Command pilot." With no more sons to give to her country, Lady MacRobert sent Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair a check for ?25,000 to buy a bomber. "It is my wish," she said, "to make-a mother's immediate reply in a way that I know would be my boys' reply...