Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans fought back savagely with heavy coast-defense guns, field artillery and multiple-barreled Nebelwerfers, whose incendiary rocket projectiles sail through the air with an unearthly noise, described by N.Y. Timesman Harold Denny as "something like a titanic horse whinnying, or a gigantic aching creak...
...invasion fleet were some 300 private boats of from 275 to 3,500-ton capacity which had to be loaded long before Dday, tagged for specific landing areas and kept ready to sail. There had to be a loading-priority plan so that supplies could be unloaded as needed in those first critical and tumultuous hours...
President-Dictator Getulio Vargas stood on the Avenida Rio Branco last week, watched the 1st Expeditionary Infantry Division parade through Rio de Janeiro. Soon they will sail for overseas battlefields (destination: secret). The President and his people had not been chummy of late (Brazilians want more democracy), but here was something of which they could all be proud. For over two hours the ruler-straight lines swept past, replete with brand-new howitzers, anti-tank guns, mortars, armored cars, jeeps from...
...still, where Brixham's whitewashed houses climb the red sandstone cliffs above Tor Bay, patient Devon fishermen mend their nets and watch for signs that offshore fishing is again allowed. Napoleon paused at Brixham on his way to St. Helena. Brixham fishermen were among the last to abandon sail for steam, but claim to have been the first to find the teeming Dogger Bank in the Bay of Biscay...
...mutiny began April 6. Sailors put their officers ashore, patrolled decks with Tommy guns. They refused to sail until the government of Premier Emmanuel Tsouderos had been replaced by one that gave more representation to EAM. Tsouderos resigned, was replaced by Sophocles Venizelos (TIME, April 24), but the mutiny continued, spread. Some 200 sailors barricaded themselves in harbor buildings, flew their kites, were starved...