Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since January 1942 the Japanese had held Rabaul on Blanche Bay, the flooded crater of an extinct volcano which gives deep water almost to the shore. In peacetime Rabaul's tiny wharf was used chiefly by island trading ships of two companies, W. R. Carpenter & Co. and Burns Philp & Co. Now the harbor is a great Japanese naval and troop-transport center. From it, short and efficient supply lines radiate to forward bases above both shoulders of Australia-a score of spots such as Kupang on Timor and Gizo in the Solomons. From those forward bases, which like Rabaul...
...Sanders concert, Fine will lead the singers in a group of three sea chanteys, featuring the glee "To All You Ladies on Shore". They're still worrying about the other...
...northwest tip. For months the Americans had been fighting slowly up along the northern coast from Henderson Field 25 miles away. Last week a strong body of U.S. troops suddenly showed itself in "a strong position" near the little Melanesian Mission station of Marovovo on the opposite shore. How they got there was not explained. If by land, they would have had to march overland more than 40 miles, through the harshest kind of mountains and jungle. It was possible they had come by sea, in the transports the Japs attacked off Rennell Island. However they got there, their arrival...
Laborers worked night & day on the stone and macadam highway along the coast. A railroad to Tobruk carried some of the load after engineers restored it. Ships edged along the shore. Rush orders had to be carried by giant transport planes. Supply trucks, given priority, frequently moved ahead of all but the very advanced troops. One story was told of a bakery unit dashing into Matrûh, where a German officer stepped forth and growled: "You arrived too soon...
...slug the size of a silver dollar which had torn through from the back, just missing his heart. But because of the soothing hypodermic and the yellowish fluid now trickling into his arm, he was breathing easily. Only 40 minutes before he had been patrolling the Sanananda shore in the steaming rain. Said Major Swinton: "Those people at home should know how their plasma is being used...