Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the thirsty streets of Pasadena, 225 miles away. The Colorado had not changed its course. The cool stream flowing over the desert and through the mountains was a man-made river, a giant aqueduct created to carry water to the semi-arid cities of Southern California's coastal plain...
Sinking or even crippling her as she set out to raid Britain's supply lines would be a victory. It would be particularly pleasing to the Coastal Command of the R.A.F., for previously all the spectacular British torpedo-bombing had been done by the Fleet Air Arm with Fairey Sword-fishes-rickety biplanes trussed up with as many outside stays as grandma's corset. (These "string bags" nicked the French battleship Strasbourg as she fled from the Battle of Oran, had crippled three heavy units of the Italian Fleet at Taranto, slowed the Vittorio Veneto in the Battle...
...Ministry announced that Sir Philip Bennet Joubert de la Ferte had been given charge of the Coastal Command, succeeding Sir Frederick ("Ginger") Bowhill, assigned to organize the flying of U.S. planes to Britain. Appointment of genial Sir Philip pleased the British who knew him for his peppy BBC talks which told them more about the R.A.F. than they ever read in the newspapers. Credited with being largely responsible for the development of effective night-fighting equipment, Sir Philip was expected to step up Coastal Command attacks on enemy shipping, and he immediately launched an intensified campaign...
...That afternoon Jerry Land and other Maritime Commission men told 16 U.S. operators in the coastal trade, that the Commission wanted about 32 ships-half of their seagoing fleets (3,500 deadweight tons and over). Thus, by legal authority given in 1917 (19 years before it was born), the Maritime Commission made one of its biggest hauls in the 1941 roundups of deep-sea bottoms. The requisitioned ships will be a whacking addition for the 2,000,000-ton shipping pool for Britain ordered by Franklin Roosevelt in April...
...time it was light, fighting was well under way. The German aims were about as simple as an attacker could desire: seize as much as possible of the road along the coastal plane, seize the three main airdromes and all subsidiary flat fields. The main attack was on Malemi Airfield; those to the east were feints...