Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoals of Japanese submarines, past the airfields in the Marshalls and the Carolines, and attempt to land an invasion force on the shores of Mindanao, in the Philippines. Nor, apparently, does it care to concentrate on MacArthur's Southwest Pacific route. The Navy must secure bases in its rear as it moves. For the Pacific is dotted with unsinkable Jap airplane carriers and sub bases which cannot be left in the rear of an invading convoy. These island carrier-bases must be 1) neutralized or 2) taken...
...Command under poker-faced Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance. Under him is the Navy's greatest concentration of power, the largest fleet in the world. Working with Spruance is a mixed collection of Navy, Marine, Army and Air Force officers including the Navy's amphibious expert, high-domed Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner; the Marines' amphibious expert, Major General Holland ("Howlin' Mad") Smith...
Battle of Boots. The guerrillas have few trucks and armored cars, have to make up the lack with bravery and footwork. In the ice and cold of the Balkan winter they need, first of all, good shoes. That is why, rear Lipovac in Western Bosnia, shoeless Partisans attacked a column of 400 lorries transporting German reinforcements, hit them fast and hard, then withdrew to the snowy mountains. Hundreds of Partisans at last had shoes, taken from Hitler's hated soldiers...
...classroom use. . . . Then, of ciurse, we cannot forget OUR BOY . . . to OUR BOY we leave the following: some assorted grimaces, a half-dozen new stances, our love, and a New Revised copy of School Regs. . . . Corley: the telephone number of the best decorated bank in Cambridge (especially the rear windows). . . . "Feather Merchant" Cassell: A set of life rafts in case of unseasonal heavy rains in the Boston area--size 14. . .. AND, to SINBAD: anything he dam well wants! . . . ditto the rest of you guys--this is thirty from...
...breaking up the bomber squadrons. Rocket-firing planes stayed out of gun range, fired broadsides from formation. To the U.S. crews, the battle at this stage had a weird naval quality. A Fortress gunner watched a group of 18 twin-engined Me-110s circle from the rear, fly up in line three-quarters of a mile away; then, like torpedo boats, execute a superb 90-degree turn and lob their rockets simultaneously-"a broadside of rockets that seemed to burst in an unending line of red and yellow fire." Some bombers were under continuous attack for as much...