Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submarines harried them from the sea. U.S. planes pounded them from the heavens. During those brief periods when there was a rift in the nearly perpetual mists, U.S. and Canadian pilots swooped down on their shore installations and strafed their shipping. Flying blind, the pilots dropped destruction through the fog bank. Japanese losses during more than three months of raids, according to the U.S. Navy...
...Most vivid, terrible scene I ever witnessed. Such peaks! Dug through worst jungle yet. . . . If I don't die tonite, I may push on along shore a way tomorrow-I don't know...
...fuel and lumber up & down the river. Now ferryboats ply back & forth carrying supplies to the embattled city and removing its wounded and dead (including many civilians trapped in burning buildings) to the east bank. The wounded go to hospitals; the dead are laid out for burial on the shore...
...night of my arrival on Guadalcanal (Sept. 1) the Marine positions were bombed twice by large flights of Japanese aircraft. Shortly after midnight three enemy warships, either cruisers or destroyers, slipped in to shore some 15 miles to the east of our bivouac and were landing troops and supplies...
...nights later two Japanese destroyers and a light cruiser crept into the bay off Guadalcanal and shelled the shore positions. U.S. destroyers the day before had taken a Marine raiding party to little Savo Island off Guadalcanal to clean up the remnant of Japanese forces there. Life is like that on Guadalcanal...