Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more important reasons why the Army operated anti-U-boat groups was the Navy's lack of extremely long-range air craft suitable for low level attack bombing required in anti-submarine tactics. To the Army went all the Liberators being delivered - and to the Army went the task of long-range patrols beyond the reach of the Navy's patrol planes. When we began to receive the needed bombers we took over...
...Tyrrhenian Sea lay calm. Somewhere above the moonlit clouds purred Allied planes. To the east, two miles away, loomed Italy's dark shape. Landing craft churned towards Nettuno's eroded, frosted beach. Tense, eager men jumped into the icy rollers, waded ashore...
...Easy. For weeks, landing craft cluttered up Allied-held harbors in the south. Countless Italians bandied the news, until it seeped across the front line to the Germans, across the Mediterranean to Algiers. Allied intelligence officers cursed, still hoped that the elements of surprise in time and place would fool...
Next, Turner invaded the Russells, northwest of Guadalcanal. That operation went more smoothly. The Japs had evacuated. On June 30th, with new equipment, new types of landing craft, he put the 43rd Division ashore on Rendova without the loss of a single life (although many lives were lost later and the final capture of Munda took weeks instead of days, as expected...
...furnace of these sometimes fumbled campaigns the Navy had forged a powerful weapon. To its fleet had been added strange, unheard-of craft which opened their mouths like Jonah's whale to spew trucks, howitzers, Marines, Seabees, infantrymen, seagoing tanks, onto beaches. To naval warfare had been added a whole new book of "standard procedures" covering the hazardous, complicated job of ship-to-shore ferrying. The "beach master" who stood on shore directing the weird traffic assumed as much importance as the master of a ship...