Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle-aged fellows getting too lazy to handle a schooner." But schooner men take one look at Endymion's circus-tent mainsail and incredible mast and feel faintly ill. . . . Anyone who has seen the Douglas yacht charging home from Catalina of a Sunday afternoon, romping past other craft, both sail and power, knows that her owner sails her like a man possessed...
...naval gunfire mounted to an unbelievable crescendo of thunder, smoke and fire. Then came the planes, dropping big bombs, little bombs, incendiary bombs. Wave after wave after wave of torpedo-bombers and dive-bombers from carriers crossed and crisscrossed Betio. Offshore, the rough sea tossed the Higgins craft and drenched the Marines and their weapons...
...small boat came alongside Correspondent Sherrod's party. An officer said: "Half of you men get in here. They need help bad on the beach." Jap shells began peppering the water. Major Rice and 17 men scampered into the small craft, which headed for the beach through a barrage of mortar and automatic-weapon fire. The Higgins boat milled around for another ten minutes, getting its share of near-misses. One Marine picked a half-dozen pieces of shrapnel from his lap, stared at them. Another said: "Oh God, I'm scared...
...officer of a third offered to take the remainder of the Higgins boatload as far as he could. As the men shifted, they saw another craft half a mile ahead puffing smoke, saw figures jumping over its side into the water. By now the Marines real ized that this was going to be a landing, if any, in the face of enemy machine guns...
Observers of Mexican military maneuvers had just seen some 15,000 troops go through their paces with modern weapons (some made in Mexico, some supplied by the U.S.), a small air force (with more trainers than combat craft on view), motorized infantry and cavalry battalions. The troops were disciplined and tidy in olive drab, with French-style tin hats or square, peaked fatigue caps with back-flaps reminiscent of France's Foreign Legion...