Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They still valued Ploesti enough to put up a stout fight for it. They fought from hastily improvised fortifications and turned their antiaircraft guns on the attackers before Malinovsky's pile driver smashed them. When they fled, they fired the wells and tanks...
Backing up Navin as reserve number four backs are Bob Chapple, star on the baseball nine, who is now ready for action on the gridiron, Rusty Hankin, and George O'Day. Chapple's pile-driving smashes through the line stood out on Saturday for the red team; Hankin was injured and is temporarily out of action...
...Michael's Cathedral at Alexishaven, a modest pile, was nevertheless one of the oldest buildings in New Guinea, which meant that it was around 50 years old. And it was a church; B-25 pilots disliked the job of destroying it. But it looked as if they would have to do it: Fifth Air Force intelligence learned that it was being used by the Japs as a military storehouse...
...railhead. Thirty miles up ahead were Japs. It was six o'clock by the time we found billets in an old factory dormitory that smelled like an abandoned pigsty-the kind whose odors are latent but deep, and revive each time you kick over a stale pile of dirt. We lay sleepless through the night...
...workingest men on Saipan, they performed prodigious feats of labor both while under fire and after beachheads were well secured. Some unloaded boats for three days, with little or no sleep, working in water up to waist deep. Some in floating dump details were the first men to pile off their ship toward the beach...