Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rommel extends his control of the southern Mediterranean to Suez. Then the Germans could move forces from southern Europe through Nazi waters, giving them thorough air protection. Then they would stand all too good a chance to by-pass or conquer Cyprus, to pierce the thinly held Syrian shore line by concerted sea, air and land assaults...
...maintain every ship and shore installation at advance bases: repairing and altering damaged ships, airfields, hangars, oil tanks, barracks, docks...
...extent of military installations and the strength of the Australian holding force in Milne Bay had been a closely guarded military secret. It was a secret no longer. From their ambush, Australian combat forces under veteran Major General Cyril Clowes fell on the invaders, drove them from the narrow shore into the waist-deep mud of the mangrove swamps. Allied planes blasted them. The Japanese sent a rescue fleet of eight destroyers and a cruiser to evacuate the remnants of their forces. Lost were all their tanks and heavy equipment...
...only was it a bellyful of surprise; it was a shoeful of irritation to the hop-skipping Jap, to whom the total conquest of New Guinea is becoming increasingly difficult. Ever since he landed at Buna on the north shore July 22, he has been trying to get at Port Moresby. His land forces have worn themselves out on New Guinea's sharp-humped backbone. Now a sweep around the seacoast had been wrecked...
...port of Lomas the sea sucked back 600 feet from shore, then heaved a tidal wave that smashed warehouses and seethed into the town. The people of Lomas scuttled into nearby hills. There, after nightfall, they pointed to a fresh terror: a great shadow slowly passed over the face of the moon...