Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lessons of Tarawa were written into bills authorizing more landing craft, which were rushed through Congress last week. The Navy's landing-craft program now totals 80,000, from the huge (450 ft.) dock ships to rubber rafts. Marines were especially glad to see that there were some "Alligators" on the program...
From grinning Navy men the U.S. Army finally found what had happened to a missing jeep. It had been parked on a dock in a West Coast port hard by a submarine. Next day both submarine and jeep had gone. To newspaper ads asking for information leading to recovery of the little car, the Army got no reply...
Soldiers' talk has spread Perla's fame across the world. Captains usually salute her as their ships pass her dock. Her megaphone came from a torpedoed liner as a gift from grateful Tommies. Perla Siedle is the wife of Air Sergeant Jack Gibson, last stationed at Foggia, Italy, and she has two sons and one daughter in the South African Army. She has sung goodby to all of them, watching their ships move out of sight over the bar to the tune of her favorite closing number, Auld Lang Syne...
...crosses all over her turned up in Liverpool next day. As the Atlantis came alongside the quay, a voice began calling "Cynthia"; soon the battered ranks along the rail were roaring in chorus: "Cynthia, Cynthia, Cynthia." A tall, handsome girl stepped out of the packed crowd on the dock and waved. Cynthia Elliot, niece of Lady Maud Carnegie, was taken prisoner with a mobile canteen unit in France in 1940, put to nursing 1,500 wounded and captured men of Dunkirk. With many of those men she was transferred to Dieppe to await the 1941 exchange ship, the one that...
...harbor, Italy's biggest port after Genoa, was cluttered with sunken ships. The Germans had sown the dockside with mines and booby traps, had destroyed warehouses and dock installations. The Germans had stripped the steel works, machine shops, locomotive factories, glass, wool, linen, silk, even macaroni factories of their machinery and left the buildings charred and gutted...