Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...south of the Po. The battle for Florence was expected to follow the pattern of Rome. Like the capital, the mellow, sun-washed city of art had been declared open by the Germans a month ago. Now, a few miles outside it, the Germans were fighting with fierce, expert craft. At week's end the German resistance stiffened. But the Germans' battle was a losing one. Within a matter of days they would have to yield before the combined assault of Eighth Army New Zealanders, Indians, South Africans and British...
Priority ratings for more than 100 types of naval craft have had to be reshuffled. Little more than a year ago, top priority was held by destroyers and destroyer escorts for the Battle of the Atlantic. Soon they were nudged out of first place by landing craft needed for the Battle of France and campaigns in the western Pacific. There was always some emphasis on carriers; for months cruisers and battleships were far down the list...
Shore to Shore. From newly secured Saipan the weary survivors of the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions, under their new corps commander, Major General Harry Schmidt, USMC, effected the first shore-to-shore amphibious movement of the Central Pacific offensive. In landing craft, under an umbrella of shells, they swarmed across two-and-a-half-mile Saipan Channel, quickly established two beachheads on Tinian. The island, less mountainous than Saipan or Guam, has no harbor. Its principal value would be to furnish more airstrips. The one built by the Japs had long been neutralized by artillery firing from Saipan...
Lisle Bell has probably reviewed more books than anyone in the world. Total is now around 17,000. But even among reviewers in Manhattan, where he has practiced his craft for 26 years, Bell is almost unknown. The reason: he specializes in the brief, unsigned booknote, turns them out at the rate of twelve a week...
...Saipan, setting the battle scene by casual conversations with privates and admirals, by recording 250 men singing Abide With Me (and obviously meaning it) in the ship's sweaty hold, led by a sweating chaplain. The recorders were near the beachhead in a landing craft as the first wave of Marines went in, Hays quietly telling what he saw, Hepburn manipulating the controls and making one anxious comment for all to hear: "If that's not recording, I'm gonna...