Word: shore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...moonslick littered with wreckage. The raider made for a cruiser, splashed three bombs into the water not a hundred feet from her, saw them hurtle to her side, watched her heel over in a spreading pool of oil after the bombs burst. A searchlight beam burst from the shore, probed high in the sky. A few A.A. guns chattered. But the Fortress was clean away. Climbing to 5,000, she dropped her last bombs on a seaplane tender in the harbor's heart and streaked for home, while her crew made to one another the circle with thumb...
This all must have happened because some anonymous South Shore brains have recently come out with something that smells of Lampoon influence: The Business School Bugle. The editors of this weekly paper-waster have kept their identities well concealed, because, as they themselves boast, "(We are) disapproved by the President, but not by the Fellows of Harvard University...
...tens of thousands of soldiers to Pacific ports than any other vessel. The Navy announced only that she had hit a mine and sunk. Since there were only four casualties out of 4,000 troops aboard, it seemed likely that the Coolidge had struck a mine near a friendly shore...
...Medal. Army, 158; Navy, 155. Sample citation (to Lieut. Lloyd A. Smith, for taking part in the Marshall Islands attack): "In the face of heavy anti-aircraft fire he made several successful dive-bombing attacks against enemy ships and shore installations...
CAIRO--Marshal Erwin Rommol's defeated Africa Corps fled headlong around the sweeping shore of the Gulf of Sirte tonight, bluffed out of its strong El Aghoila lines without a fight and hotly pursued by the victorious British Eighth Army and great clouds of Allied planes...