Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pattern of depth charges thundered in the Spencer's wake. But the tension was less than during the attack in darkness. Daylight seldom yields much in the battle against submarines. In their sea-stained zipper jackets and dungarees, Coast Guardsmen joked and talked about their next shore leave...
...Allied anti-submarine tactics now being used, some are new and secret, others are merely the old tactics of defense brushed up by experience or bolstered with stronger weapons. These include : 1) more escort ships and planes for convoys; 2) reorganized defenses and new defenses set up at strategic shore and island points; 3) a newly developed long-distance aerial patrol; 4) secret anti-submarine devices; 5) the strategic bombing of submarine bases, repair docks and factories...
...enemy ships and shore establishments with at least 84,100 lb. of bombs...
...today, but we might as well have been transported to Shangri-la for the first few of those nine days, it has been so amazing. Musters divided by 10 and then redivided to give us our present number, no daily room inspection, but instead, a student club, more shore leave, generally less iron-clad discipline...BUT, more work and still more...
They Will Strike Again. Righting the Oklahoma was a long and complicated job: "To roll her back, salvagers patched what holes they could get at, pumped out what compartments they could and lightened her as much as possible. On the shore, some 200 yards away, winches were anchored in the ground and from them steel cables were strung across the water and fixed to clamps fastened along the Oklahoma's bottom. The winches turned, the cables began to pull, and very gradually, inch by inch, the big ship rolled. Week after week the process went on. The clamps were...