Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feint in the Night. While still under enemy observation, Oldendorf swept on to the north, past the entrance to Lingayen Gulf. Perhaps the Japs would think he was going to Vigan. But in the night he turned back. The sea approaches to Lingayen Gulf had been scantily mined. With little difficulty, his ships reached their bombardment runs and opened fire with everything from 5-inch to 16-inch guns. Jap shore batteries on Santiago Island answered briefly and were soon put out of action. Jap aircraft attacked, again for three hours...
...Last. It was Tuesday, Jan. 9, when Barbey's landing craft nosed in to the beach extending south from San Fabian. Assault troops streamed ashore in full daylight, direct from LCIs, with no opposition save enemy mortar fire. Wilkinson's group, following Barbey's into the gulf and staking out the southernmost beach west to Lingayen, met no enemy fire, but heavy surf breaking far out complicated the task of landing heavy equipment...
...first day of the Luzon bombardment General Lumsden was killed on the bridge of a U.S. warship in Lingayen Gulf. In London, the War Office announced his death "with deep regret." MacArthur did better by him: "It is superfluous for me to speak of the complete courage which this officer so frequently displayed. . . . His general service and usefulness to the Allied cause was beyond praise...
Killed in Action. William Henry Chickering, 28, TIME war correspondent; by enemy air action; in Lingayen Gulf (see A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER...
...story of this flattop begins with green young men, many of them unbelievably boyish, endlessly rehearsing their deck and air routines, or loafing in the sunlight as their floating town lounges through the improbable colors of the Gulf Stream and edges her way through the Panama Canal. While they loaf, they wonder. Their destination is still as dead a blank to them as their experience of combat. Then, well out in the Pacific, in some rough, wonderful shots, they meet a tanker and refuel, and know at least that their job is to be long and businesslike...