Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Masaharu Homma, who for 15 months had been training troops in Formosa for this job. He had an estimated 200,000 troops to work with. He did the obvious thing. At many points along the coast he put down landing parties to work their way across the coastal flats into the hills behind the U.S. main line of resistance. But the Jap also swarmed along the cliffs on MacArthur's left flank, with bombs and shells and rifle fire forced the U.S.-Philippine defenders to give ground...
...virtue of their retreat the British now had certain relative advantages. The coastal strips along which they must prevent Japanese landings in small boats and sampans were considerably shorter than they had been. Because British defenses were deeper and more powerful near Singapore, there was less chance of Jap infiltration tactics working. With the fighting front less than a four-hour drive from Singapore, British lines of communication were shorter. Along them the too few British trucks could carry two loads in the time they had taken for one a fortnight ago. Reinforcements had had time to arrive. The British...
...test in blood a British gamble. Sometime ago the British Command had recognized that it could not hold north Malaya. Its troops were outnumbered four-to-one (or more), out-planed, outgunned, later out-tanked. There were some 1,000 miles of coast to defend, a half-score coastal inlets that invited Japanese flanking...
...exploding cigars. They made up the first lighter-than-air squadron the Navy has sent aloft in World War II. Each of them was manned by a crew of eight and carried machine guns, light cannon, bombs, depth charges. Their job: to hunt enemy submarines and mines in U.S. coastal waters...
Showing slides of the coastal range of British Columbia which he and his party were the first to climb from the inside northeast side, Henry S. Hall '19 described several of the experiences he had on his eight different trips to this range...