Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Left. The British and Canadians were on the eastern water flank, which was churned by a brisk wind across the Bay of the Seine. Some small landing craft were swamped or impaled on the water barriers, or bobbed helplessly offshore, targets for German 88s and 1553 which had survived the bombardment...
That move had paid off heavily for the Allies. Minesweepers had been able to do an especially good job of cleaning up the beach approaches, and the skippers of the host of first-wave landing craft could see the German water obstacles (submerged at flood tide), thus had a minimum of trouble from ripped bottoms in the first few hours...
Dour Day. Aside from whatever lift of spirit that fact gave him, D-day found Ike Eisenhower in one of his worst moods. The Supreme Commander had little to do but wait in galling idleness during the slow-treading hours before the vast fleets of landing craft and gliders could put their troops ashore, and some vestige of order begin to appear out of the vast amphibious chaos...
...have been waterborne, he once told Butcher that when his time came he was going to insist that his ceremonial coffin be built in the shape of a landing craft. Someone else can figure out the history part...
Complete details on the local aspects of the current Fifth War Loan Drive will be released in Tuesday's SERVICE NEWS. Special particulars of the Navy's campaign, July 1 through 8, will outline plans for the WAVES purchase of two torpedo craft, to be launched on their second anniversary, July...