Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four more men advanced to the quarterfinals of the Harvard Summer Tennis Tournament this past week when Robert Hunker, of the Naval Supply Corps School, Thomas Mann and F. M. Shore, Jr., of the Naval Training School (communications), and Jack Lynch, of the V-12 Unit, won their second round matches...
Hunker labeled himself as a man to watch when he defeated Jack Benn, resident of Cambridge and former number one man on the Brown varsity. The scores were 3-6, 7-5, and 6-1. Shore trimmed Ed Twarog, AST, 6-3, 6-4; Lynch overwhelmed G. C. Fuller, 6-0, 6-0; and Mann took over Robert E. Stokes 6-2, 6-2 to round out the septet...
...Elsa Shore, soubrette...
Combat brought one operation never hinted at in tactics manuals. While flying over the Mediterranean during North Africa's last days, one grasshopper spotted a small boatload of Germans. Pilot and observer fired their pistols. The Germans waved a white handkerchief of surrender and headed in to shore. The pilot landed on the beach, left his observer to guard the prisoners, flew off for reinforcements to come and take them away...
Established at command posts, they advised Army commanders what support they could request from naval fire. Once the Army selected targets, they radioed range and other firing data back to their ships. Each shore party included men for observation posts, often located in the tops of olive trees, who spotted fire and radioed back adjustments to bring it dead on target...