Word: precisionism
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At 8:28 a.m. the first wave of the 3rd Marine Division (part of the Third Am phibious Corps under Major General Roy Stanley Geiger, USMC) hit the beach between Adelup Point and Asan, north of Orote. Eighteen waves followed them with triphammer precision.
Soon after Bell reached Manhattan, the late Clarence Britten hired him to write the Dial's brief reviews. That extraordinary literary journal carried pages of condensed reviews, most of which Bell wrote, and which for literary quality and precision of judgment ranked with the best writing in the magazine...
The squadron's time came on Oct. 31, 1943 when it swept around the Solomons bastion at Bougainville (at 31 knots) whipped close inshore and shot up Jap airfields one after the other while Marines stormed ashore at Empress Augusta Bay. Near the end of the job a Jap...
The outfit itself was the hero, and one of the greatest turned out yet by the Navy. Its skipper, Commander Joseph Clinton Clifton, a 36-year-old precision product of Annapolis and Pensacola, had seen to that. Sinewy "Jumping Joe," who was never known to sit in a chair more...
An expert jumper, Dr. Little now gives demonstrations in precision parachuting, lands within 20 ft. of an X marked on the ground. This was his 23rd jump, his first nonpractice jump.