Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprised Jap manned his shore batteries and his shipboard antiaircraft. Only one fighter rose to intercept. Desperately it flung down on one of the big American bombers, locked wings and fell from the sky, bringing its victim with it. That was the only American loss. The planes returned to their Australian base, having successfully completed the second longest air raid for land-based bombers in the Pacific War-1,000 miles...
...mine rifleman, Lou developed an accuracy famed in an outfit noted for its shooting, once he took up mortars. On Guadal he boasted he could lob a shell down a chimney, and did. When a Jap cruiser closed in to shore, Lou lobbed a few shells at it (like firing bee-bees at a bomber), explained, "I wanted to check my azimuth and it's just right." Many a mortar crew in the Solomons was Diamond-polished...
...Tower, Loew's. Others stopped streetcars, pulled off zooters, Mexicans or just dark-complexioned males. On went the mob, ripping pants, beating the young civilians, into the Arcade, the Roxy, the Cameo, the Broadway, the Central and the New Million Dollar theaters. The mood of officialdom (the Shore Patrol, the Military Police, the city police, the sheriff's office) seemed complaisant...
...pachucos had asked for trouble, they got more than was coming to them last week. The military authorities were notably lax (all shore and camp leave could easily have been canceled), the Los Angeles police apparently looked the other way. The press, with the exception of the Daily News and Hollywood Citizen-News, helped whip up the mob spirit. And Los Angeles, apparently unaware that it was spawning the ugliest brand of mob action since the coolie race riots of the 1870s, gave its tacit approval...
British warships and Allied bombers will first pound the invasion point. Invasion boats, each carrying 120 men, will then bring up the first attack wave of 50,000 troops. Only 13,000 of these will reach shore. Half of a second wave of 50,000 will also be killed by defending submarines and aircraft. The survivors of the first 100,000 men will establish a bridgehead extending perhaps five or six miles inland, although by then 90,000 of them will have been killed, captured or wounded. Other waves will follow. By the third day the Germans will have drawn...