Word: protective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life was getting dull for the fighter boys in Assam. They had been stationed there since last summer to protect the air supply line to China...
Under Zacharias the Salt Lake City took part in the first offensive U.S. action of the war by shelling Wotje in the Marshalls. Three weeks later old Swayback poured avenging hell into Wake, then went on to Marcus Island, only 1,000 miles from Tokyo, to protect a carrier whose planes set the Japs to jittering in their own backyard...
Unfortunately, the penchant to give parties for eligible young officers is not confined to schools, which have an abundant supply of equally eligible young ladies, Mrs. Giard has had to protect "her boys" from the wiles of fond mothers who wished to palm off their less popular daughters on the unsuspecting...
...rebels. The kidnappers let her see the Generalissimo. As soon as she entered the room where he lay, shockingly emaciated, he showed her a verse in the Bible he had found that very morning: "Jehovah will now do a new thing, and that is, He will make a woman protect a man." She read psalms to him until he slept...
Twelve feet of reinforced concrete protect Admiral Karl Doenitz' U-boats when they put into Lorient and Brest for rest, repairs and refueling. Some Allied sources say that constant air raids, by smashing more poorly protected surface shops and power stations, have lowered the efficiency of Lorient and Brest as much as 75%, but the U-boats in packs still prowl forth into the Atlantic...