Word: lagoons
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...triangular area a mile on each side was being graded and landscaped at a cost of $4,000,000. The old Washington airport (tailed the "Hoover Airport" in pre-New Deal days) was flooded to make a lagoon that would enhance the vista from the War Department. Upwards of 1,000 trucks and bulldozers were on the job. From its start in September until its completion in the spring, the landscaping project will have employed an average of 1,000 men each day. The number of man-hours necessary to beautify the land around the Pentagon was estimated unofficially...
...Marines with coconuts and coconut juice, told them where the Japs were concentrated. Three times during the day Jap bombers came over, did more harm to their own forces than to the Marines. U.S. machine-gunners on the shore destroyed two planes which landed in Makin's still lagoon...
Lieut. Charles T. Lamb of Snow Hill, N.C. was wounded in the head and shoulder. After his wounds were dressed he returned to his men and decided to board a Jap sloop in the lagoon. A Jap marine fired through a porthole, missed. Lieut. Lamb tossed a grenade into the Japanese boat, clambered aboard and polished...
...came the rumble of engines. But this time Wake's men did not have to worry. For the first time since Dec. 8, a U.S. Navy patrol plane was coming in to see how things were going. The big boat thundered across the island, wheeled, landed in the lagoon. Out crawled her crew...
...time for the patrol boat to leave. The props were ticking over. The boat thundered across the lagoon, took the air, melted into the clouds. Wake's men knew the next face they would see would be the face of the Jap. Two days later when the Jap had landed and the last struggle was going, their commander radioed a last gallant message: "The issue is in doubt." But from the hour when the patrol plane left, every man on the island must have been quite sure that the issue was not in doubt-it was inevitable...