Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rules of international law." On the day of the Privateer's flight, a "four-engined military plane of the B-29 type" (the Privateer is actually a single-tailed Navy version of the old B-24 Liberator) had flown 13 miles across the Soviet coastline near the Latvian harbor of Liepaja, said Vishinsky. Soviet fighters had swept up in challenge and ordered the U.S. plane to land at a Russian airport. Instead it refused and opened fire...
...west bringing a sharp, high wind with it. At daybreak a B-17 bomber, Air National Guard planes, two Navy PBYs and private planes joined the hunt for the adventurers. At 7 a.m., the B-17 spotted Dickie Bauer's raft 25 miles from Euclid, near Fairport Harbor. The bomber lost it in the morning haze and tumbling waves, but 2½ hours later spotted it again...
...full six hours before the American Export Lines' Exilona made port, Italian divers were busy beneath the waters of Naples harbor looking for mines. Just over their heads navy patrol boats bumbled to & fro; above them, planes of the Italian air force watchfully circled the sky. On the shore, soldiers in tanks and jeeps patrolled the approaches to the waterfront, and Neapolitan police guarded a dock entirely surrounded by barbed wire...
Twenty-one days after she submerged off Hong Kong, the new U.S. snorkel submarine Pickerel surfaced last week off Pearl Harbor, a quarter-way around the world. Her record: 5,200 undersea miles, with only the mouth of her snorkel breathing tube showing her trail on the surface. A few misgivings tempered the Navy's pride in its achievement: after all, Russia -equipped with a fleet of the latest snorkel subs of her own-could launch precisely the same kind of run from the coast of Communist China...
...policy in Asia in recent years had led to disasters many times worse than Pearl Harbor. Yet it was not fair either to Lattimore or the U.S. Government to charge, as McCarthy did and does, that Lattimore was the "chief architect" of that policy. Dump heaps have no architects. But Lattimore's' ideas did work to thwart the development of an effective program of U.S. help to anti-Communist forces in Asia...