Word: lagoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tang's favorite assignment was also "redirecting" Japanese shipping. But during a two-day air strike, Commander Richard Hetherington O'Kane and his men were given a new job: fishing downed airmen out of Truk's big lagoon. The first day was relatively uneventful: only three saved in the teeth of enemy gunfire. On the second day, soon after dawn, the Tang picked up three airmen off fortified Ollan Island; a little later, three more, seven miles to the east. Then a Navy float plane, out on a similar mission, found the sea too choppy to take...
...cluster of pavilions beside a Venetian lagoon, they had their best chance of finding it. There the Venice biennial, the world's oldest, biggest and best-known international art show, had assembled a record exhibition of 4,000 art works from a record 22 nations, to celebrate its silver anniversary...