Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engineers repaired the roads. Before them lay Apra harbor, its turquoise waters whipped into white streaks by PT-boats on guard against enemy movement. U.S. ships returned to the harbor-the first since the minesweeper Penguin was sunk Dec. 8, 1941. Supplies began to flow in for the attack inland. Patrols probed seven miles across the island. Main bodies followed, cut Guam in half...
They had been moved out last November. Farmers grumbled, drove cows and horses inland. Grannies whimpered, packed their shabby, precious gewgaws in cardboard cartons, rode away triumphantly in limousines provided by the Government. Vicars did their vicarish best to spread cheer, dismantled stained glass windows with leaden hands. Then U.S. troops moved in, practiced landings with tanks under live shells. Those Americans are in Normandy...
...long inland arm of San Francisco Bay the ships came to the naval magazine at Port Chicago, a cheerless town sprawling under dusty trees. The 1,500 citizens watched them come & go incuriously; after the novelty wore off, the ships might have been loading wheat, for all the thrill there was in it. Few even knew the names of the two ships which lay at the low, wooden naval wharf one night last week with slingloads of heavy ammunition swaying aboard in the glare of masthead lights...
That would come later. The Japs still had guns, still had fight in them even after 10,000 tons of shells and bombs had ripped their two-and-a-half-year-old defenses. By noon of D-day the marines had tanks ashore, had fought their way inland through charred and tattered palm groves, using grenades, rifles, machine-guns, light field pieces & flamethrowers...
Simple Slaughter. Next morning our troops drove to the beach on the north of the Jap pocket and thus hemmed in the remnants of living and the windrows of dead in an area about a thousand yards along the beach and 500 yards inland. In the northern end of this pocket there was some fierce fighting that day before the enemy was beaten down. But from the lower end of the pocket, driving north, it was simple slaughter...