Word: coves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Colonel Van Santvoord Merle-Smith, 54, until last August General Douglas MacArthur's Executive Intelligence Officer, peacetime yacht-skippering investment banker; three months after a breakdown induced by heavy South Pacific staff work; in Cove Neck, N.Y. Princeton '11, Harvard Law School '14, he won the D.S.C. as a World War I captain (later he was a major) of the 165th Infantry...
...most interesting features of occupying an enemy-held position is to check on the damage done to it. Our naval gunfire in Gertrude Cove had been effective beyond expectations. Many direct hits had been scored on buildings there. But I was disappointed at the apparent ineffectiveness of our aerial bombardment. Some buildings had received a direct hit or two during the hundreds of raids in the past 14 months, but the Japs themselves blew up their subs and the Zero wings and tails in the hangar were damaged by strafing, not bombing. Bomb hits had scarcely affected the Allis-Chalmers...
...attack was three-pronged, striking at Massacre Bay, Holtz Bay and Blind Cove. As the lighters pressed on the beaches at Massacre Bay to spill their cargoes of men, tanks and artillery, there was no sign of the enemy except for sporadic machine-gun fire...
...reached points about three miles inland did they encounter serious resistance. On Temnac Bay, beyond Murder Point, a unit led by Captain Robert Goodfellow surprised a Jap gun position. Before the guns could be manned every defender was killed. Not one offered to surrender. Another unit landing at Blind Cove fought across a ridge, waist-deep in snow, to join a main assault column. The Jap was tricky. Routed from one foxhole, he would escape by tunnel to another. But his tricks did him little good. U.S. officials had said they would not "send...
...North Cove, Wash...