Word: mists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-five German planes swept out of the sea mist, their guns wide open. They came in so low that they had to bank to avoid church steeples. While their machine guns and cannon sprayed indiscriminately over the town, they dumped high explosive and incendiary bombs. In less than 60 seconds it was over...
...differed in describing Takrouna. Some of the Highlanders, staring at it through the moon-sifting mist that night, said that it looked like Edinburgh Castle. Other men said it looked like terrain on the moon. One man, looking at it through binoculars, said: "It is as though a great rectangular block of stone had been set down quite recently at the edge of the plain, and then another, smaller block on top of that. The height was held by some of the best Axis troops, for Takrouna was the beginning of the last natural wall before Tunis...
...about that on said date 1-43 becomes eligible to wear a white shirt every day ... and a paper collar every two day ... in short, achieve the distinction (?) of being summoned as Company A ... the date of our "last night ashore" is still shrouded in a typical New England mist ... lay your own odds as to whether we see the sunrise over the Yard on the 30th of May or not, or march with your own local American Legion in the holiday parade. Casualty list: a good percentage of one Tactics group sunk and not without Trace ... in fact...
...half their machines still unpowered, Derry's men turned to, repaired their first ship, the Albatross, She was around their necks for days. Four times she stood out to sea, then came back for more repairs before the base finally and happily saw her waddle away into the mist...
...U.S.S. Angry turned her snub, sea-battered nose out into the grey wilderness of wintry Atlantic. Green water pounded the corvette's narrow decks, doused her open bridge where the hooded skipper stood squinting into the mist. Now and then he gave a quiet command for relay to engine room, signalmen and the helmsman below. The Angry was heading back to sea, guarding another convoy of rusty freighters, laden with men and supplies for distant battlefronts...