Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between the water and the sea wall on Tarawa atoll, there was 20 feet of sand and brown-green coral; those 20 feet (for a distance of about 100 yards) were the U.S. beachhead. With the 3,000 Marines, dead and alive, on that tiny beachhead was TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, who went ashore with the first waves. Notebook in hand, Sherrod crouched behind the sea wall and jotted down notes for a notable close...
Like a Fox. On Bougainville Island, his pals laughed and bet Private Roy L. Webb $80 that he could not dig a foxhole eight feet wide, four feet deep, and ten feet long in four hours. He tossed out the 19 tons of sand in three hours and 56 minutes...
...than a problem: there wasn't any. Holland Smith started practicing with two ancient ship's launches whose engines frequently did not work. He experimented with Boat Builder Andrew Jackson Higgins on a fast, high, stout-bottomed boat that could bounce over shallow reefs and hit the sand hard enough to get men into shallow water...
Russian soldiers drilled in short-center field. Outfielders stood ankle-deep in sand. The catcher's mitt was a gunner's asbestos glove (for handling, hot shells) with extra padding. It took four hours to make a baseball-from part of a rubber heel wound with string, covered with leather cut from gloves. Bats were whittled out of soft Russian pine...
...western Ralik (Sunset) group of the Marshalls like a string of beads carelessly cast upon a table. The deep lagoon surrounded by this string is 66 miles long, ten miles wide, big enough to hold all the world's shipping. The atoll itself consists of 92 bits of sand-covered coral, some big enough to be called islands...